To Our Readers – Thank You! (they said)
2 Sep 2011 by unexcusedabsencesWhen we first started this website to document our complete abdication of responsibility, we figured it would be read by our family and a few close friends. We are delighted to discover that we are more widely read than we thought! In fact, we’ve been fortunate enough to make new friends who’ve stumbled across our little corner of the internet.
We love hearing that the Unexcused Absences site is being forwarded to folks planning a vacation or to somebody who wants to do a bit of armchair adventuring. And best of all, we love hearing from readers when they comment on our posts! We really enjoy interacting with a community of folks whose thinking and outlook are similar to ours.
So, thank you for reading, thank you for commenting, thank you for sharing with us! Unexcused Absences is nothing without our readers!
Next week we’re off to France to continue our canal cruise on Après Ski, so hopefully the posts will become more interesting very soon. As we mentioned earlier, the boat has been moved to south-west Bourgogne (Burgundy), land of farms, forests, and wine! We will be reporting from the beautiful Canal du Nivernais, a very old waterway originally used to haul firewood and limestone to Paris. As of 2011, the locks are still fully manual – in fact they are some of the few remaining manual locks in Europe – so hopefully we’ll have enough strength remaining in our arms and hands to write about the experience!
Finally, we have something new — an updated and modernized web site! Heather’s been working on the web site all summer (when she hasn’t been sewing curtains for the boat). In addition to freshening up the look and improving the comments section, the web site’s also had a number of technical changes behind the scenes that mean the site should work better on more devices (smart phones and iPads), and has a great framework for some fun additions in the future. If you normally read our posts in email or in Facebook, try clicking on over to unexcusedabsences.com to view the complete package!