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Time to celebrate<\/strong>… and take a look back. Honestly I don’t know how I managed to arrive at 500 posts about Recoleta Cemetery!<\/p>\n But it’s been a labor of love. I still remember my first visit to the cemetery in March 2000<\/strong>… wandering everywhere just to find Eva Per\u00f3n’s tomb. In fact, the beauty of the place distracted me so much that I forgot about Evita until a few visits later! After moving to Buenos Aires, I developed a successful tour of the cemetery & had a crazy idea to map the entire place. Yep, I counted every single tomb, crypt, mausoleum, & cenotaph. Whew.<\/p>\n This blog came about in 2007 to help market that map but soon took on a life of its own. Despite a couple of long breaks & an extended stay in Australia, AfterLife continued to grow & gained readership… there’s no other English-language source like it.\u00a0The map later transformed into a PDF guide<\/strong> & then an iPhone app<\/strong> with the birth of Endless Mile<\/a>. Below are a few stats about this interesting journey:<\/p>\n —————————————————<\/p>\n First post:<\/strong> 03 Oct 2007<\/p>\n Total # of posts:<\/strong> 500<\/p>\n Total word count:<\/strong> over 110,000 or about the size of a novel<\/p>\n Readership:<\/strong> averages between 4,500 & 5,000 unique visitors per month, about 300 per day. Amazing for a blog about a cemetery<\/p>\n Most comments:<\/strong> Liliana Crociati de Szaszak<\/a> (currently 107)<\/p>\n Total number of photos posted:<\/strong> over 1,600… & only a few used elsewhere online without my permission!<\/p>\n Number of bilingual posts:<\/strong> currently 155, or 31%<\/p>\n People guided since 2003:<\/strong> just under 1,000! Remarkable since my groups average between 2-6 people. This number also includes maps & guides sold online.<\/p>\n —————————————————<\/p>\n Here’s the big news: today & today only<\/strong><\/em> I’ll give away a free copy of the PDF guide<\/a> to anyone who sends me their email address (robert AT recoletacemetery.com). Not only will this help spread the word about Recoleta Cemetery, but it gives everyone a chance to test drive an Endless Mile<\/strong> guide.<\/p>\n Thanks for everyone’s continued support!<\/em><\/p>\n Update:<\/strong> As of Aug 2015, the iPhone app is no longer for sale. And unfortunately the plug-in to toggle between Spanish & English text does not work with recent updates of WordPress… the mega-project of a bilingual website will have to wait a bit longer.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Time to celebrate… and take a look back. Honestly I don’t know how I managed to arrive at 500 posts about Recoleta Cemetery! But it’s…<\/p>\n