First Post! Purpose of this blog

Donna and I are leaving for California in just three days! Starting a blog feels a little narcissistic but I hope that it'll help keep us in touch with everyone back home while we're away. It'll also be nice to have a journal of our adventures to look at once we get back to plain old Pennsylvania in six months. I'm gonna shoot to update this at least once a week with text entries and lots of pictures addressing anything cool that we've seen or done that week, and hopefully we do lots of fun and interesting things that are worth posting about. :)