Now that Wander the Rainbow is out there, I’m officially retiring my old trip blog, The Wanderlust Chronicles. This blog saw me through thick and thin during the trip and its followers were most supportive in their encouragement to turn it into the book you see today.

Although more a demonstration project than an ultimate piece of production software, The Wanderlust Chronicles also broke new ground in that it was entirely written in Flex, Adobe’s platform for writing websites that run in Flash. Flash has been in the news of late, mostly for Apple’s steadfast — and borderline vindictive, in my opinion — refusal to support it on any of their ultra-portable devices, from iPhones to the new iPad. I think that’s too bad… if nothing else my blog demonstrated that Flash can be used to build engaging, richly interactive sites without the clutter and junk that’s so often associated with it.

The blog featured the ability to subscribe to it — users would get an e-mail every time an entry was published. To keep that experience alive I’ve rolled out that capability here — and added most of you original Wanderlusters to the list. If you find this in any way troubling feel free to unsubscribe yourselves — a simple one-button operation on the right-hand side of this page.

I look forward to hearing from you Wanderlusters (and others) on your reactions to the book you helped inspire.

Wander on!

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