The domain name getoutandgo.com was first registered on 3/11/99, which was about 3 weeks before my ex-husband Mike and I formally started our company, furfly, LLC. The intention was always to build a website that would showcase what we could do, and also spread the word about places we liked to go by documenting our weekend trips. We were building sites using the Arsdigita Community System (ACS) back then, so that’s what we would have used if we had gotten it built back then. But like the cobbler, whose children always need shoes, we never managed to put much time into our own projects.
It’s now 12/2010, almost 11 years later. Mike and I are divorced (and each remarried to other people). ACS still exists, now known as OpenACS, but it’s a shadow of its former self and I don’t use it anymore. These days I’d build it with Web Objects, or maybe Django.
My husband Wayne and I are about to set out on a two week road trip to visit Southern CA, my old ‘hood. I got the bright idea of getting the site set up so we could document the trip, but there was no time to build the snazzy custom site I had in mind. So this tumblelog is a place holder where we can post our trip reports. Eventually I’ll move the content to a site I built, with more “social networking” features (we called it “community” ten years ago, and I still think that was a better term).
There will also be a companion iPhone app, because the other feature of this site, besides sharing our travels with you, is to showcase what I can do. Advertising and entertainment, rolled into one. Now there’s a novel concept – no-one’s ever done that before! Pffft. :)
I hope you enjoy the writing and photos to come.