Markers of History

I just wanted to let you all know that some of the sites I vis­ited that were orig­i­nally await­ing inclu­sion in the data­base have now been included, and this morn­ing, I logged my tenth land­mark on the site, giv­ing me a red star kudo!  :) (I know…you’re thrilled for me.) The next level of kudos will be for reach­ing 25 land­marks (and it’s quite con­ceive­able that I will reach this from places I vis­ited on Monday, but have not yet logged on the site); at that level, I’ll get an orange star.

The process of writ­ing about these places is tak­ing longer than I expected but I’m still mostly enjoy­ing it…I’m just learn­ing when I have to say “OK, Scott, that’s enough for now.” I’m also (mostly) log­ging them as I write about them (which may be a day or two before those posts appear here on the blog), so that’s one rea­son the count will take a while to increase, even though it’s been a week since I made my trip to Portsmouth.

And a fuller expla­na­tion about the Path of History mark­ers: They are not yet in the Markeroni data­base, so I’m intend­ing to hold off on sub­mit­ting those until I can see if I can get hold of a list of that program’s mark­ers. That may or may not be pos­si­ble, but that’s been on my per­sonal back-burner until I can get these write-ups done, so I don’t intend to do much on that front for about another week or two, I’d guess. But I did want to explain that note that’s appear­ing under “Markeroni sta­tus” in many of my entries this trip…because I’m the hold-up on that series of sites.

OK, enough with the “inside base­ball,” time to get back to his­toric sites and markers…