Trip Report Improvements

Basically, I like the current format. Adding tags for visited states would be nice.

Some of the links to my reports have problems:

My 2011 TC Heaven trip says something about being stored on Cloudflare Huh? A forum thing? Certainly not where I put it.

The link for my 2008 drive along South Coast Ridge Road works initially, but the picasaweb link embedded into my post no long works. I am still mad at Google for taking away Picasaweb.... My post is apparently not editable, so even if I reconstructed that TR the link to it could not be posted.

Probably these two trips should be deleted from the sticky. So much TR prep work, eaten by technological change.

Thanks for all of the work that you and others do to keep this TR sticky alive.

If it is possible it would be nice to have a list of the most recent TR's at the beginning , maybe 6 or 12 months worth before they are absorbed into the general format .

A big thanks to all who created , maintained and contributed to this sticky .

ticki2 wrote:

A big thanks to all who created , maintained and contributed to this sticky .

x2 (or more) to that!

Steve has arranged all the trip reports chronologically by geography/contributor...

Given enough time, a new top page (thread) could include trip reports sorted by recent date only (this will rotate out say by oldest, every month, to seed a geographically titled chronology?).

The issue may be: 2 sections must be maintained: the geographically relevant sections, and the top page chronological listing....a bit more work (12 rotational JCL instances per year, if you will)...

The recent trips reports in the top or second post is probably workable and easily done.

I have some other ideas too, but I need to make sure it's easy to maintain. I figure I will only have it for a few years and need to make sure the next volunteer can easily keep it going.

The idea is to improve upon what is being handed over to me, not re-inventing the wheel as I think the current organization works well.

Keep the ideas coming, I like what I've heard so far.

All my links to my 2015 Summer Journey don't work, I've been saving them in than other way so when the time come to re-link them I can send them to you. Plus I would really like all my TCTR in one place and not split up like it's now.

Thanks, c.traveler2

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

I, too, want to thank you for taking this on! The TC TRs here are a treasure!

So I'm thinking the new layout is going to be a bit more straight forward while easier to search. This will add being able to search by state and make determining where to place the TR easier.

All the TRs will be sorted by author listed by date with keywords as to location. Location will include both region and state. Below is an example. Please give me some feedback.

Recent Trip Reports

Apr 17 Snow Over by Apple
Mar 17 Tasty Treats by Eggplant

TRIP REPORTS

Apple
2017 Snow Over (Southeast, MS, LA)
2016 Having Fun (Southwest, AZ, UT,)
2015 Snowed In (Southeast, FL,)
2014 Sun Stroke (Midwest, KS, OK, SD, ND,)

Coconut
2015 Hidden Home (Canada, BC, WA,)

Egg Plant
2017 Tasty Treats (Central, KS, OK,)
2017 Garden Tour (Northeast, Canada, MA, NC, NS, NY, PA, VA, VT, WV,)

Blogs

Cucumber
Around the world blog (Africa, Canada, Europe, Greenland)

White Ratany
Desert Travel Blog (XTC, Africa, Southwest, AZ, NV)

Looks good. Are you developing software or have a template to make this automatic? To bring all the old TR's into the new regime will take a lot copy and pasting. My son Matt is a big time I.T. guy and uses as many short cuts as he can to keep his 50 servers going and up to date. I hope you have the big pipe and 100Meg speed to make all this work. Our puny Hughesnet satellite can hardly get out of its own way and then you run out of data allowance.
Let us know what you decide to do.
jefe