What Is An Expat?

I’ve got a large chunk of the posts from the old site imported finally. It takes a while, particularly as I had to re-link all the images and cut/paste the original comments in. It was interesting to read and remember what was going on then living in the camps in Uzbekistan and Iraq. The format is certainly much easier to read and it’s easier to navigate, since you can look by category (primarily Iraq, Uzbekistan, and Camp Life) or by timeframe. See the sidebar along the right, going down towards the bottom. Note that posts can be in multiple categories — for example Camp Life covers most of the stuff from living on base, and will have another category for location as well, that sort of thing.

The remaining items at the old site are primarily Trip Reports, which have their own sort of hierarchy here and will be moved over as time, energy, and interest permits. Basically, all the work and less of the play is here right now. 😉

I finished bringing over the old phpbb posts for this, and it’s available here:

2002 12: The Journey To Uzbekistan

It’s broken into subpages, and I don’t have the navigation fully set yet, so currently you’ll need to go to that main page, which is mostly just an index, and click the links below and use your back button until I get a navigation framework up. You can also see it in the sidebar under Articles / Trip Reports / 2002 12: The Journey To Uzbekistan, though the subpages don’t show up there. There will eventually be so many that it would be unwieldy in the extreme.

Well, it’s time to start unveiling things here, so we can get an idea of the shape of things to come. I’m pretty pleased with the framework I’ve been able to build so far and I think the usefulness of a site like this will be significantly higher than the old phpbb forum. Let me know what you think.

I’ve put in some old data as a bit of filler, so yes…some of these posts ARE almost 3 years old.