Starting this blog...

This is the start to my field blog. I'm not actually leaving for a few weeks, but I figured that I better have this thing up and running prior to departure. I'm hoping that this blog will act as both a travel log and field journal. I'll try to keep the boring research-related stuff clearly distinguishable from the [hopefully] more interesting writings on travel, etc. I haven't figured out if I can load images from my trip directly into the blog, so if necessary I will upload images somewhere else and provide a link. All for now...