We have reorganized Innkeeper’s Gazette from a traditional static web site containing a blog into a blog driven web site. The goal remains the same — to present family news and photos — but the blog format should make it easier to update our readers quickly as things happen. We tried the format during our Europe trip last fall and found that the approach worked well.

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Now that Jan’s bout with breast cancer is behind us, it is time to recast this space into a general purpose journal of our activities. We are beginning to travel more extensively, and dragging out the PC to update our Innkeeper web pages from remote sites has been inconvenient at best, and frequently a real pain after a full day on the road, visiting with friends, or visiting an attraction of some sort. The mechanics get in the way of telling the story. Consequently Innkeeper’s pages have become a bit long in the tooth. Additionally, the approach we have used for Innkeeper has become more of a photo blog than a narrative; that format does not make it easy to quickly get across the “best parts” of our days (as we ask the grandchildren at bed time). I believe it is time for a new approach.

We won’t walk away from the blog’s roots. We will leave the posts related to Jan’s illness in 2010 as a reminder of how lucky we are to have this time together and to be able to share our activities with you.

Lets give it a try and see how it goes.