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More below the fold.
I’m back from our epic three week trip to Pie Town, New Mexico, via the Grand Canyon. And Moody Loner is heading off to Arkansas via Disneyland this week. So you all have to put up with me this week. I hope I've done this right. Please come back soon Moody! ((((hugs))))
A huge GRATS! to Suluca, the newest front pager here at Daily Kos!!!!!!
Moody is off on his own Epic journey. Thanks again to everyone for all their support and may all the powers of Azeroth look after Moody and his family. Arkansas didn't look that bad. In fact, it's much nicer than the panhandle of Texas.
The big news for the game is the new Firelands patch bringing new quests and dailies, a quest chain with Thrall (who I’ve missed a lot — Garrosh is such a jerk), a new raid and a new area to unlock.
News for the guild is that we are seriously contemplating relocating our website. Ever since Curse took over Wowstead, it's been downhill. Managing the Curse-Wowstead site was a huge pain — far more complicated than it needed to be. The site took a long time to load when it wasn't down, which is often. So thanks to Kaels and with major lifting by Taymatt, we are trying out Enjin. If you haven't visited there yet, please do so. It's got some cool features that Wowstead doesn't have but the best part is that it loads fast.
A few travel tips that we learned on our own Epic journey:
Being able to make a basic campfire is not really useful when virtually every campground has banned campfires because of the fire danger. Huge fires in Arizona and New Mexico made us alter our route and time table a couple of times. This is the Pacheco fire just north of Santa Fe. A few days after we left Bandelier National Monument, another fire broke out. Last I read Los Alamos and Bandelier had both been evacuated.
Having a mage along on a camping trip is ideal. We had to cut short our hike along the rim of the Grand Canyon when we ran out of water. Also just having a flying mount at the Grand Canyon would have been amazing. We did see a couple of California Condors there riding the thermals.
Some final observations. Get off the interstates as often as you can.
I'm so glad I leveled Archaeology in real life.
And the pie in Pie Town is well worth the trip!