[TR] Triumph Trans-AmeriCan - Website and other issues

[John Macartney]

Hi, Everyone
As many of you will have seen from the 'Net, the TTACD finished ON TIME (tho one hour late), ON DATE 
and after 15,400 miles rather than the 10,500 miles we had originally estimated through Microsoft 
Streets and Trips!
Liz and I are now back in the UK after a planned break and much anticipated brief vacation on Queen 
Mary 2. Sadly, it didn't quite work out as we had foreseen and planned.
First, the TTACD website. At the end of the Drive the web URL expired and while I tried to 
reactivate it from the US, it couldn't be done until I returned to the UK. I actually got back early 
on Thursday morning and since then have hardly had a chance to look at the 4900 emails that awaited 
my return. I'm really planning to do my best to get the original web URL back on-line as soon as I 
can but it was only today that my elder son came off his life support system in hospital.
As Liz and I passed near the grave of the Titanic last week, I received a text message from number 
two son that Nick was being 'blues and two-ed' into hospital with necrotizing fasciitis in his leg. 
Not a lot you can do from the middle of the Atlantic unless you're on an aircraft carrier to get 
quickly to a bedside. NF is a speedy killer if not attended to immediately and while much tissue has 
been removed resulting in extensive plastic surgery, he has neither lost his leg or his life. The 
longer term downside is that his transplanted kidney has also packed up, he has an enlarged heart, a 
blocked aorta and a seriously enlarged spleen - but fortunately, we live in a country where 
"Socialised Medecine" really DOES work (Republican Senators and Congressmen please note?) and we 
know Nick is in truly fantastic hands - and not having to worry "if the insurance will cover the 
cost?".
But all this is likely to delay things a bit in terms of website update and I can only ask for your 
forebearance if processes to do with the event take a little longer than they should.
In the meantime, keep your browser pointed at www.triumphtransamerica.org for new info as it gets 
posted.

Cheers, Jonmac