But an absolutely breathtaking trip into south-central Washington and back into the Columbia River Gorge via the spectacular Kilickitat River changed my mind in a hurry about the Explorer.

So, since then I’ve been in a mad dash installing WordPress, setting up the basic plugins and the like, trying to organize the site’s categories, plan for future pages and blog posts, setting up and organizing a massive Google Reader feed of websites from across the four states (and one Canadian province!), and much, much more.

There’s a lot to be done still, including putting the finishing touches on my custom designed user interface in Photoshop and then turning it into a functional WordPress theme. Past that, there’s a lot of content writing to be done – at least twelve articles and a couple pages (ala that About page you see).

I’m hoping this weekend will be fuitful. Not many folks know about the Explorer yet, and that’s for the best. But if you’re just dropping by, here’s the reason things look to be in utter dissaray – because they are.