It's been a major push these last several days trying to get ready for this trip. It's now almost 1 AM. I am almost ready and just have a few last details to take care of. 

I had planned on trying to upgrade the site several days ago but unfortunately, as is always the case when I try to leave, life had other plans. So here I sat the night before I am to depart trying desperately to get the latest software installed and working. I considered it entirely reasonable to do a 10 revision upgrade the night before a big trip just as I considered it entirely reasonable to finish bolting the bike I'm going to be riding back together this morning.

Unfortunately, there was some revision control issue I don't yet understand (way too tired right now) which conspired to make what should have been a simple upgrade into a many hours endeavor. I'm bringing all my work with me so maybe I'll have a chance to fix a few of the problems and get it all a bit more stable than it is now. It does, however, seem that the updated blogging software that I've written works (with the exception of the tags tree and archive. I'll have to figure out what's going on with that. It worked on my development copy.) 

So I leave tomorrow.  My intention is to update this space regularly. 

For those interested in my untimely demise I am carrying a spot tracker with me: http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0nyIQjW2hqc98ef74mZru7g0PsAqljHB6

(which I assume will start showing something as soon as I depart in the late morning.)

This is the beast I'm going to be riding:

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More later ...