Updating the blog in real time

As many of you might have guessed, I have fallen way behind in blogging our year on the road. We have been in Maine for almost six weeks, and on the blog we have yet to leave Nebraska. Lots of interesting things happened in that time, and rather than try to compress them into a few short blogs, I’ve decided to begin blogging in real time and pick up on those as we go along.

We are in Old Orchard Beach at the moment, a town along the southern coast of Maine with a 7-mile beach that is completel...