Wasted Morning with WordPress

For approximately a half hour this morning I had this travelogue on WordPress.

Good going.

No problems.

Everything went smoothly. I simply published an index page with WordPress to the same address as this travelogue with the attempt of leaving all of the Blogger generated pages right where they were — without altering anything.
—————-
Wade from Vagabond Journey.com
in Bangor, Maine USA – July 8, 2009
Ask Travel Questions
—————-

This would work out fine, as I do most of the navigation for this travelogue manually with self generated index pages (directory, by world region, and year).

I stood in a position where I could take up the line with WordPress that was laid down with Blogger.

Except . . .

I could not find a theme worth using. I could not find a theme that I liked even remotely as much as the one that I created through the Blogger publishing platform.

The page that you are reading now started out as a simple two column Minima template that I massacred, buggered, and mutated to be exactly what I want it to be.

I could not find a WordPress theme that could match my preferences. Most of them just look plain stupid. I run the Arras theme for the homepage, travel help, and Feature stories parts of Vagabond Journey.com, and this is what I tried to use for the travelogue . . . but it just did not seem right.

The problems that I am having with Blogger are “known issues” and I will wait out a month for them to fix them. Until then, I will be searching for an appropriate theme.

I can now begin publishing with WordPress at the touch of a button.

I really wish that I could just use the template that I currently use of this traveloge with WordPress . . .

Looking for a path through the woods.