February Changes: Movable Type to WordPress

Just a quick post to let everyone know that we recently moved our whole site over to Wordpress from Movable Type.

Why this might be important to you?

The non-geeky explanation is that this will allow us to do more stuff with our web site more easily.

However, there may be some pages or links on our site in the next week or so which might not work as effectively as they should.  If you find things that aren’t working, please drop us a line and let us know.

Also, please be patient as we get things working 100% again.

Growth of WordPress through 2007

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Panama Viejo and Casco Viejo in Panama City, Panama are not the same thing

Panama Viejo and Casco Viejo in Panama City, Panama are not the same thing…

I don’t know why, but for some reason, I thought that Panama Viejo (old town Panama City) was Casco Viejo. I was wrong.
This morning, Jonathan and I decided to go see Panama Viejo and then have lunch at one of the many new and fun places in Casco Viejo.
Casco Viejo is also called Antiguo Viejo, as you’ll see in the video below.
We grabbed a taxi right out front of our hotel (Hotel Santana), and were taken to Panama Viejo. Our driver also told us where it was safe and where it wasn’t if we wanted to walk around the old city.

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The Panama Canal at Miraflores

The Panama Canal at Miraflores

For some reason, whenever I hear of the Panama Canal I think of “Arsenic and Old Lace”.
Teddy says “I’m going to the basement to dig the Panama Canal!”
I love that show…
No trip to Panama, especially Panama City, would be complete without a trip to the canal.
We didn’t really make it work last time we were here (as we just passed through Panama City), but this time we knew we’d go.
Our overnight bus arrived into Panama City from David at 6:00am – exactly on time!
There are some crazy buses in Panama (all over Central America)!

From there we went to our hotel, and they let us check in super early, which was great!
So, we were able to grab a nap.
I read that there is a restaurant in the visitor’s center of the canal, so we decided to go there, have lunch, and watch a few ships pass through.
It was awesome! The food was ok, not the best (and pretty pricey), but good enough.

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Merry Christmas!

For those of you who don’t celebrate Christmas, we hope you will take some extra time today to spend with family members and/or loved ones.

We are enjoying our time back in Colorado… though with the traveling we’re doing around the state to visit family, we’ve been running around like crazy since getting back!
We hope you enjoy this special day!

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Top 5 Things I’m Looking Forward To In Colorado

I don’t really experience homesickness, because I always feel pretty excited about what’s coming up, about the future, about where I’m going next.
So this is the 5 things I’m looking forward to at this moment, knowing I’m returning to Colorado tomorrow.
This is being written from a hotel outside of San Jose, Costa Rica called the Adventure Inn.
#1. Water
-Hot Water (lots of nice, hot water in the shower)
-Tap water. At least in Colorado, drinking filtered tap water is safe, cool, and nice. Although we’ve drank tap water in Costa Rica and Panama, it’s nice to know that the water in the states is safe, whereas in Central America, I’m never 100% certain.

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The Island Reef Job: How Many Videos Did You Submit?

“How Many Videos Did You Submit?”

This was a question I was recently asked.
In total, 5 videos.
Two videos were submitted using Carrie’s two email addresses, two using my email addresses, and one using our support email address for GreenJoyment.
I know this may have increased their workload a bit at Queensland Tourism’s offices (reviewing 5 minutes of video instead of 1 minute), but I read/heard in an interview on the Indie Travel Podcast, that they would accept all applications, even multiples from the same person, as long as they came from different email addresses.
I took that as an open invitation… hopefully that was a good opinion to arrive at.
We’ll find out soon enough!
So over the course of the past few weeks, we’ve made 5 videos, each approaching us, the island reef job, and the reef from a different perspective.
Here are the videos, in the order we submitted them…

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Contact form is back

For anyone who may have attempted to contact us via the contact page in the last couple of days, please accept our apologies.
The contact form was down because someone (me) uploaded the wrong template.
It’s relatively technical and geeky so I won’t bore you with the details, but just FYI, the contact form is back.
Thanks for understanding my operator error!

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Kevin’s climbing Everest – right now!

Kevin Cherilla, our leader when we climbed Kilimanjaro, is on Everest now. He put together a blog so that we could read about his experiences while trying to summit the tallest mountain in the world. It really is a fun (and funny) read. If you’d like to check it out, here’s the link: www.kcsummits.com/Everest_2007_Blog.html
Definitely go check it out if you’ve ever had even a little curiosity about what it’s like to climb the highest mountain.

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Britten and Chris return from the mountain

Jonathan and Carrie,
We are home safe and sound (even with all the London Terror that held us up). Thanks for your info on the hiking poles. We found some that we rented and were very thankful for them (especially on the way down, my knees were killing me and we were sliding everywhere in the mud in the rainforest). We were sooo sore for a few days afterwards too! We did make it to the summit just at sunrise and it was absolutely breathtaking. We took about 600 photos and video too. Actually we took more photos but somehow managed to lose one of our digital cameras on the mountain We had pretty good weather although we did see rain, snow and hail. We both loved to see the clouds roll into camp! It all just seemed like a whole different world (besides the coca cola that was everywhere!) We took the Rongai route (known as the Coca Cola route) up and came down the Marangu route. Thanks again for all your help! We were very prepared and thankful for your packing tips!
Britten and Chris =)

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Kilimanjaro2006 in the news!

Carrie is from a town in the NorthEastern part of the state called Holyoke. The Holyoke Enterprise did a full story on us and our climb, and we thought it was a really nice article!
We’ve linked to it, or you can click to continue reading and read the article right here on our site!

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