Celebrating an Anniversary and Growing Presence
It almost slipped by me that this blog just reached its fifth anniversary. It was April 8, 2006 when I first posted Passes and Canyons Enters the Blogosphere. That’s pretty amazing, at least it is to me.
I’ll come back to that in a moment but I also want to pass this bit of news along. I was contacted recently by Lenore Bates of the Colorado Dept. of Transportation asking if I would include a link from my Great Roads page to their site where they have some good information on Colorado’s scenic and historic byways. I said sure, you bet, and gosh, it would sure be nice if you could link to my site from yours as well.
Well, sure enough, she did and now the CDOT website is directing people to Passes and Canyons as a resource for people looking for information on scenic roads in the state. That’s pretty much guaranteed to boost traffic on the site a bit. Thank you CDOT.
So back to the blog. It’s not like I started out with a lot of energy. I was still building the Passes and Canyons website and figured I ought to include a blog but I really didn’t feel I had much to say. In fact, for the rest of 2006 I only managed to post to the blog once, twice, or three times a month, and didn’t post anything at all in November. I had had the same experience as a newspaper editor. I occasionally ran personal columns but only when I was really driven to say something, which wasn’t often.
Finally I got serious about it and told myself I had to post three times a week. I had to! And an amazing thing happened. I opened my eyes and looked at everything from the perspective of whether it could be a blog post and suddenly I was flooded with ideas. Then I started writing for other publications as well, until I concluded I had to cut back on the blog to twice a week because I was just too busy elsewhere. That’s where we stand today and I have no intention of cutting back any further, no matter how busy I get doing other things.
So thanks for helping make this website and blog the successes that they are. I look forward to continuing with them for many years to come.
Biker Quote for Today
The older I get–the bigger my rear sprocket gets
April 28th, 2011 at 4:28 pm
Congrats, Ken – especially the CDOT link! I’ve told you before that yours is the site I refer all of my LD friends to. Here’s to the next 5 years!
Dan
April 28th, 2011 at 6:29 pm
I enjoy your blog- even more so later this year when I move up to a bigger bike and start roaming our state’s highways and biways
April 29th, 2011 at 8:13 am
Congratulations on your five years. Here’s to the next five… and the five after that….