Kindle Once Again - this time for Walk, Hike, Saunter

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 Last time I did this was Dec 2017. At the moment, memory of how to do it is pretty foggy, but luckily I have my earlier blog posts on this to refresh my memory so printing them out to review. (look for Kindle label in this blog to find).  This book is a little easier than the others - text and inline photos, a table of contents, but no index. Susan has promised it will be out in two and a half weeks, so will try to do that. My immediate issue is that I remember that I have to make some changes to the Indesign file before putting out the epub file that I will update for Kindle, but don't remember quite what they were. Pausing to read my prior posts, and to review Kindle code for Healing Miles . From my 2012 notes I saw that to get reliable chapter breaks, each chapter had to be a separate xhtml file. The default of Indesign is to put out one big xhtml file, but it will break on a style, so I need to be sure the current Indesign document (for Walk, Hike, Saunter ) has an appropriat

Trip planning again with trepidation

This has been the year of weather impacted trips for us. In the spring in Spain; rain and high water forced us to cut our trip short. In August late opening trails in Glacier National Park caused a reroute which we ultimately decided was unfeasible. OK, maybe the prevalence of grizzly bears in that part of the country had something to do with it. Not to worry. There were still relatives back east, so we planned a little trip on the Appalachian Trail in time to see the fall colors. That time is soon coming.

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That little red line is about where our trip is planned. That big white thing is Hurricane Irene. We keep checking trail conditions. Words seen in reports are impassable, high water, washed away, detour, trespassing, arrested . . . , but we persevere. Flood waters drain quickly, right? We are used to crawling under and over fallen trees from our PCT days.  At least the fall colors should still be there. Is it going to be hot and miserable, cold and miserable, wet and miserable, all of the above? Tell me again why we keep doing this.

An unforeseen consequence of these trip disasters is that we've been home more than usual, and have been really enjoying that. We're staying more in touch with our friends, and most recently have been hearing and seeing some remarkable musical performances. Oakland has a strong blues tradition, and we caught a couple of festivals featuring local artists. Then, two performers from my youth visited the area in small venues. Out of New Orleans, Dr. John put on a great show at Yoshi's, a jazz club. Last night we Saw Judy Collins in San Francisco at the Rrazz Room. If she ever gets to your area in a small venue, be sure to catch her performance, at least if you are old enough to remember the 60s. Her voice is as good as ever, and she has a real rapport with the audience. Most are her age peers, and she relates to them as peers.

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