As you can imagine, it’s been a busy final week before we leave for Maui Sunday morning. With only one more day at the office left and a few final errands to finish on Saturday, our mindset is already set to vacation mode.
Site Preparations
I haven’t had a lot of free time to post this week, but I have been doing a few things behind the scenes to make this upcoming trip a little more interactive. As I had done last year, I plan on opening up my Maui Twitter page with updates throughout each day of our trip. Of course, if you’re on Twitter yourself, you can also just follow me (@webnelly), too.
That’s not all I’m working on, however. I’ve been testing out two other online goodies to help you keep tabs on what we’re doing and even what we’re seeing. The first is the Twitter photo sharing service, TwitPic, which will allow me to take photos from my cellphone and post them directly online. My goal is to share about 3 photos a day, so we’ll see how that goes.
The other service I’m testing out is brightkite. This one allows me to ‘check-in’ at different times and places on our trip. Say, for example, when we’re enjoying that long awaited slice of Hula Pie at Leilani’s. Whenever I ‘check-in’ during our trip, you’ll be able to click and view exactly where we are on a Google map at the brightkite website, and at the end of it all, I hope to be able to use that info to literally map out our travels each day.
Of Course, The Blog
As I have done for the last two years now, I will also be switching our blog here into diary mode, with daily journal entries of the previous days highlights and happenings. Be sure to follow along and add your comments each day.
Lastly, many mahalos to our readers that have been following us through these last few months as we plan our return to Maui. This trip, more than ever, we’ve received so many great ideas and comments from our readers and on Twitter. For my Twitter friends on Maui, Cindy and I look forward to meeting you IRL (in real life) very soon.
Mahalo!
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