Ray Plumlee's an American Odyssey
Traveling Webmaster's Deck Log
This is a copy of my old Deck Log (Online Journal). I am now using an online blog at my "Have Web Sites Will Travel" web site. I use it to chronolog my travels around North America (my American Odyssey).
This "Old" Deck Log is now only an archive of past postings. It tell's the reader where I have visited and what adventures I have had up til the time I started my blog on Have Web Sites Will Travel. This archive was written primarily from the perspective of a tourist. Not necessarily my work log though I may do some of that too, especially in those early days when I built the sites resouces. Initially I used it to detail my efforts in getting prepared for the adventure. Then I chronicled the adventure itself.
To read my current Blog, Deck Log, Journal or Captains Log go here.
Date: 11 August 2003 11:33 AM
Location: City: Meridian State: Idaho
Log Entry Title: Update on the Traveling Webmasters Preparations
Log Entry: Last week I started work on my trip/adventure schedule. I created a database to contain my schedule. For now it displays only in the header of my web site. It shows my first five home base hub locations with a link to a pop up window that displays my full schedule (as it is now planned). I put in a caveat that the schedule is very tentative. This entire adventure will always be tentative.
I also programmed the "travel status" indicator at the top of the web site to dynamically draw from the schedule database. It displays my current location and my next home base hub's location. Additionally, it shows if I am traveling (underway) or stationary (inport). Once the travel adventure begins I will have a "travel status" that shows I am underway with a departure port and a destination port.
No new planning toward the actual move than a little day dreaming about the project. I am getting ideas from everywhere. TV (television), radio, newspapers, magazines etc. I am getting a lot of ideas about places I want to visit. Places I might want to avoid etc.
An example of what kind of idea's I am getting is "Country Kitchens." I was reading the newspaper USA Today which had an article about old country kitchens. This reminded me of my last duty station in the Navy when I was at the Naval Submarine Base, New London in Groton, Connecticut. A couple of old shipmates of mine, LT Wally Lattal and LT Tony Ermovick (Now Captain Select) and myself, used to go to a different greasy spoon in the Connecticut and Rhode Island area around the New London Submarine Base. We had breakfast at a different country style restaurant every Sunday.
Our favorite greasy spoon turned out to be the restaurant in the Groton (New London) Airport. At first we were surprised but they put out the best food and had a very good menu. This was in 1993 and 1994 so I can't speak for them now. Look forward to trying them again in the near future. The habit of trying out new greasy spoons has sort of remained with me even though I am retired. I still go out frequently for breakfast but I now only go to a few of my local restaurants. I am looking forward to getting back into the habit of trying out new greasy spoons every chance I can.
Ray Plumlee
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