Why This Blog About the Trip

Once the airline tickets were purchased and other planning was underway, I thought it might be fun to try to maintain a diary of the trip. Initially my intent of the diary was to just share the "personal" trip experiences with my immediate family (Deb and the kids). But as I thought about it and began to write the introductory background in the prior posting, I realized that a larger audience of family might find such a diary/blog interesting. So that's now my focus and intent -- write it to inform and educate Deb and my kids about the experience -- but with sufficient circumspection that it could be shared with anyone.