She intent is here is to give a description of the blog - its structure, its context, its relationship to Prednisone Dreams and so on so that readers know what to expect.

The idea we have in mind is that these two will probably be the last journals we'll maintain on the site unless something significant causes us to rethink it.  We expect to maintain them both continuously and in parallel for as long as bicycle travel continues to interest and be viable for us, which we expect to be the case for a good long while yet with reasonable luck.  We'll just quit chunking things up into shorter journals, but instead let them just keep scrolling out indefinitely.

In some ways it's better to think of these two as a single journal split in half for reasons I'll gradually develop here.  

And about the thumbnail image: I like it because it seems so fitting to the team: two old wrecks, impressive in their prime but now still beautiful in a whole different way: etched and battle-scarred, a bit weather-beaten, but with a patina that hints at all the character they've acquired over their long lives on the road.

Rachael on the other hand prefers to be seen as a classy chassis, and I can see her point.

About Tyenne Travelin'

This half should be thought of as more of a traditional narrative bike journal, and is all about the bike.  This is the half on which our biking and hiking activities will be set down, maps will be posted, distances will be accumulated, videos will be shown, and so on.  I anticipate it feeling quite familiar to what you've seen coming from us up until now with a few exceptions:

• The structure will be different in a way that I hope will work well for managing a narrative that might roll out for another decade if we're really lucky.  In my view, lengthy narratives are a problem whether you run them chronologically or in reverse.  Chronological narratives have the most natural feel and readability, at least for old farts like myself who learned to read on actual, physical books printed on extracts from dead trees.  I don't really know what works well for people born a generation or more later than me, but for myself and I imagine most others of a certain age, direct chronological narratives work best.

• The drawback though in a long narrative is that the newest entry is a hell of the long ways down the road.  It's not apparent unless you jump to the end which posts were recently added or modified, folks get weary of scrolling down there, have trouble keeping context when they get there and lose the thread, maybe finally stop engaging because it's too much work and not worth the investment to keep up.
• The solution we have in mind is to have it both ways.  We'll have a fixed block at the top (these About sections) to give people context, but after that all of the content will be chunked up into units, sized more like what might have become a journal on its own in the past.  For example, the journal will begin with our month here in Portland in our latest Airbnb while we wait to fly to England, and will address some of the five W's of this chunk of our lives: why we're here, where we're staying, and so on.  Entries will be posted in chronological order: today is Independence Day, I went birding and for a loop down to the Sellwood Bridge, while Rachael took a pair of hikes up into the West Hills.  Very similar to how our posts were managed up until now (until Scooter decided to take a ride on the wild side and scare everyone, that is).
• There are several structural changes that apply both to this blog and its life partner, Cortisone Dreams.  Refer to that About section for a description of this structure.  They'll be almost exact analogs, except that I don't expect at this point for Tyenne Travelin' to include NY appendices.  If that changes, we'll add them on the same model.
• Since there won't be the roaming around through space and time here that you'll see on that jumpy other guy, the What's New block will have a slightly different purpose, consisting only of a list of previously published entries that were modified in a way we deemed significant enough to bring them to your attention.  The thought here is to spare you from rolling down ten miles of bad road to hopefully find the reason this journal suddenly jumped to the top of the list for no obvious reason.

One other difference is that I expect posts in general to be significantly shorter on average than they've been in the past: less text, fewer photos, less insightful and obviously brilliant tangential philosophy, and so on.  They'll be easier for folks to make a quick read, look at the pictures, and get on with their lives,

• Another is that I expect most posts to include a musical dimension.  many rides will include a GoPro video, and Rachael will continue to create an occasional walking visit from her phone.  If neither of these is present (or even if it is), I'm likely to rummage around in the attic and see if I can't find a fitting SOTD to close out with.
• Anything else?  Probably, but it doesn't come to mind at the moment and I want to get closure.

And are you curious about the other half of the blog?  Curious ain't the half of it - it's a madhouse over there at the moment, so you're better off stepping over or peeking through a gap in the fence and let them speak for themselves.  Good luck on catching them at a coherent moment though!