It’s an amazing thing how quickly a summer can get busy. It’s been a great one for Beth & I. Full of friends, family & lots of traveling. Since our trip to Chicago we’ve visited Philippi, WV, traveled to a wedding in KS, had reunions in OH & PA, and visited Beth’s family in California too. A whopping 6,000+ miles of travel! We’ve been in 9 states and will get things to a nice even 10 when we fly to Albuquerque for a week of Service Adventure orientation. If you’re interested in trying to keep track of where Beth & I happen to be you should check out my Dopplr page.

In case you haven’t heard for some reason, Beth & I will be the leaders of the Service Adventure unit in Philippi, WV for the next couple of years :-D  We leave Goshen on the 19th of this month which is sad in plenty of ways. Goshen really has been a wonderful place for us to spend our first year of marriage.

When I wasn’t traveling, I was working hard to release the latest & greatest feature for haiku… Embed the Web™. Simply put, it lets teachers use tools from virtually anywhere (Google Maps, TeacherTube videos, del.icio.us bookmars, you name it) right in their classes. Not only that, but we provide step by step instructions for a growing number of websites to help them get started. It has been a lot of fun to work on & has once again made me marvel at how incredably huge the internet is.

To finish up this long overdue post I suggest you read an article on the 37signals blog: Early retirement is a false idol. I really appreciate the authors point of view. I can only hope that I continue to be lucky, getting to do work that I hardly consider work. I know well and good that it’s a luxury & I pray that I never forget that. Thanks to all for your thoughts and prayers over the past few weeks & I’ll be keeping you updated with how things are going in WV once we get settled in.