Trip Report Improvements
We are working on transferring the Trip Report Sticky. During the transfer process, it would be a good time to make changes to the format. So, if you have any suggestions, please let me know and the...
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Kohl,
Thanks for taking this on with a clear eye as to organization and the way you will leave it for the next person.
The problem is maintenance. As of now, the TR file is just like Steve left it a few years ago. You are correct in trying to set up a system that will be easy to self-perpetuate.
I do think that some of the TR's in the dim dark past (some 10 years ago) are classics because of either the subject matter or the spectacular writing and deserve a special place as they are timeless and have no expiration date. I see kind of a, "Best of" file with just a few examples of the best of the best TR's, even if the posters are no longer with us. Many of these have faded into the mists of time. I remember one from a guy who camped out along Hwy 80 in CA at Cisco Grove and withstood a ten foot Christmas snow fall, and the antics by the Camp owner using, by degrees, every piece of snow removal equipment he had, from a walk behind snow blower to the biggest 6 yard bucket Hyster ever made, until there was no where to put the snow, and no way to get the customers out of camp. Snowbound. It was so well written I hated to see it disappear.
One other thing: since I have posted the latest TR, I had a lot of trouble keeping up with the RV.net April 17th security upgrades for up loading and found myself chasing my tail at times. I'm not particularly tech-savvy and was to the point where I was going to abandon the TR project entirely after hitting the security wall over and over again. There must be a slicker way to upload.
On another forum, "The Pirates of the Rubicon", of which i was member number 106 of about 45K members, they were severely hacked and made everyone re-up their subscription. They made the security fence so high that I gave up trying to get back over it. Just a thought.
Thanks again for volunteering to do a thankless job.
jefe
Thanks for taking this on with a clear eye as to organization and the way you will leave it for the next person.
The problem is maintenance. As of now, the TR file is just like Steve left it a few years ago. You are correct in trying to set up a system that will be easy to self-perpetuate.
I do think that some of the TR's in the dim dark past (some 10 years ago) are classics because of either the subject matter or the spectacular writing and deserve a special place as they are timeless and have no expiration date. I see kind of a, "Best of" file with just a few examples of the best of the best TR's, even if the posters are no longer with us. Many of these have faded into the mists of time. I remember one from a guy who camped out along Hwy 80 in CA at Cisco Grove and withstood a ten foot Christmas snow fall, and the antics by the Camp owner using, by degrees, every piece of snow removal equipment he had, from a walk behind snow blower to the biggest 6 yard bucket Hyster ever made, until there was no where to put the snow, and no way to get the customers out of camp. Snowbound. It was so well written I hated to see it disappear.
One other thing: since I have posted the latest TR, I had a lot of trouble keeping up with the RV.net April 17th security upgrades for up loading and found myself chasing my tail at times. I'm not particularly tech-savvy and was to the point where I was going to abandon the TR project entirely after hitting the security wall over and over again. There must be a slicker way to upload.
On another forum, "The Pirates of the Rubicon", of which i was member number 106 of about 45K members, they were severely hacked and made everyone re-up their subscription. They made the security fence so high that I gave up trying to get back over it. Just a thought.
Thanks again for volunteering to do a thankless job.
jefe
