Personal perspectives.

June 25, 2011
A day with no rain! We used the morning to rework the Blue Road Blogger website. With the weeks prior to our trip here, we were caught up in preparations and that electrical short that plagued the Dodge for weeks. As a result the web site was sorely lacking in the development area.
We are in the process of adding pictures and some of our favorite places and people we have come across in out travels on the road and around North Carolina.
Many of the first links will be restaurants like the Shoney’s in Dover, Ohio; the White Horse in Carthage, North Carolina; Big Al’s in Pittsboro, North Carolina; and The Diner in Smithfield, North Carolina! There is a regional franchise in North Carolina that had breakfast called Biscuitville. But we found a place in Smithfield, North Carolina that has the BEST biscuits---THE BISCUIT STOP on Brightleaf Blvd.
It is our hope that the places we find to be outstanding in service and / or product will also provide the same for you. Unless some place is absolutely the worse, we will not go into details of businesses that come up short.
There will be times when Mary and I disagree on what separates the good from bad. An example would be the visit we took to THE HOUSE ON THE ROCK in Wisconsin. While I found it to be bizarre and entertaining, Mary saw it as MORBID and macabre. I would recommend it and Mary would highly suggest avoiding it at all costs.
We are also anxious to start posting pictures of various places we stop at. Mary has her Canon G2 Powershot and has a different perspective than I have. As we are also more settled, Mary is looking forward to writing more and sharing her voice regarding our travels.

Tim and Mary
On the road in Michigan

Web site building 101

http://www.blueroadblogger.com/ continues to take shape.  We are reaquainting ourselves with HTML.  I had jumped into web design and digital photography back in 1998.  I still use the Canon D30 DSLR I bought for $1800!  I had been very familiar with the Adobe Photo Shop program as well.  My Gateway Solo 9500 laptop that I paid $4500 for in 1998 finally quit working in 2007.
Today I am using a Toshiba laptop and Mary has a very nice e-machine that is more than adaquate for our needs.
The web site is a work in progress.  Using HTML gives us more control over the appearance of the site, but it also is very time consuming.  We are still designing the site on paper and we try to update it at least once a day with new features.  I am starting on two new pages that will ink from the HOME page.  Though I am hesitant to do our biography (putting your life story out top the public is difficult), we know there are folks who will need to know where we have been and why we are going in the direction we have choosen.
Please check out site at least once a week and let us know how we are doing...

Thanks

Tim and Mary
Bunnlevel, NC