where is serenity

I am excited to announce my new blog, “Where is Serenity”, which I will dedicate to my sailing adventures! Hopefully they will be many and varied. I have been interested in sailing since high school, when I used to go sailing with friends on a local reservoir. Also I met many cruisers (people traveling the world by sail) while living in the Bahamas and found the lifestyle to be intriguing.

In two weeks I will be flying for Fort Lauderdale to a take a week long liveaboard sailing class. My cousin Scot is meeting me there and we expect to have a good time learning to sail on a Lagoon 410 Catamaran. At the end of the course we hope to have a number of certifications (ASA 101, 103, 104, 114) which will allow us to charter a catamaran for a planned week long family vacation bare boat charter in 2009.

This blog is a stand alone Wordpress installation with several plugins which will allow me to post updates via email. If the email contains a decimal longitude and latitude then the post will automatically contain a map with the location marked.

As the posts increase in number the Map page in the right column will be updated and contain a marker for each post.

I will write daily posts during my sailing class, but since we will be anchoring out each night, I am not sure how often the blog will get updated. Updates will probably have to wait until the class is over.

For those that are interested the plugins I am using are:

Postie: Upgrades the posting by email features of Word Press.
GeoPress: Adds geographic tagging of your posts and blog.
Flickr Manger: Modify images on Flickr, and insert into posts.
Wp-OpenID: Enables OpenID for authentication, and commenting.

~ by Darley on April 25, 2008.