diff --git a/src/routes/(main)/+page.svelte b/src/routes/(main)/+page.svelte
index 059174c..d1d18c9 100644
--- a/src/routes/(main)/+page.svelte
+++ b/src/routes/(main)/+page.svelte
@@ -30,12 +30,12 @@
 <section class="mx-auto px-4 sm:p-0 flex w-full flex-col items-start">
 	<Slice>
 		<h1 class="text-3xl lg:text-5xl font-bold text-shadow">
-			welcome to my page 🌊
+			🌊 welcome to my page 🌊
 		</h1>
 	</Slice>
 
 	<Slice title="Hello World!">
-			<p>This site is perpetually under construction but coming along :)</p>
+			<p>This site is perpetually under construction but coming along. 😎</p>
 
 			<p>It's mostly a place for me to post <a href="/blog?show=Recipes">recipes I like</a> and <a href="/gallery">travel photos</a>, with the occasional technical post or personal blog mixed in. Some <a href="/work">work-related</a> <a href="/resume">stuff</a> can be found here too, but that's not what I want to talk <a href="/about">about</a>.<p>
 
diff --git a/src/routes/(main)/[slug]/+page.js b/src/routes/(main)/[slug]/+page.js
index 6a4cda8..16f67b6 100644
--- a/src/routes/(main)/[slug]/+page.js
+++ b/src/routes/(main)/[slug]/+page.js
@@ -5,9 +5,13 @@ export const csr = true; // https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/pull/6446
 export async function load({ params, fetch, setHeaders }) {
 	const slug = params.slug;
 
+	// redirect these slugs to appropriate routes
 	if (slug === 'feed' || slug === 'rss' || slug === 'rss.xml') {
 		throw redirect(308, '/rss.xml')
 	}
+	if (slug === 'sitemap' || slug === 'sitemap.xml') {
+		throw redirect(308, '/sitemap.xml')
+	}
 
 	let res = null;
 	res = await fetch(`/api/getContent/${slug}.json`);
@@ -16,7 +20,8 @@ export async function load({ params, fetch, setHeaders }) {
 	}
 	const json = await res.json()
 
-	// because [slug] is a catchall, it gets the gallery pages too. redirect them.
+	// because [slug] is a catchall, it gets gallery slugs too. redirect them. 
+	// e.g. /japan -> /gallery/japan
 	if (json.type === 'gallery') {
 		throw redirect(308, `/gallery/${json.slug}`)
 	}
diff --git a/src/routes/(main)/gallery/+page.svelte b/src/routes/(main)/gallery/+page.svelte
index d7ef233..7fd1fda 100644
--- a/src/routes/(main)/gallery/+page.svelte
+++ b/src/routes/(main)/gallery/+page.svelte
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 </script>
 
 <svelte:head>
-	<title>heffner.dev | adventures</title>
-	<meta name="description" content="part photo gallery, part trip report" />
+	<title>heffner.dev | gallery</title>
+	<meta name="description" content="part photo gallery, part adventure log" />
 	<meta property="og:image" content={`https://heffner.dev/og?message=adventure%20log`}>
 	<meta name="twitter:card" content={`https://heffner.dev/og?message=adventure%20log` ? 'summary_large_image' : 'summary'} />
 	<meta name="twitter:image" content={`https://heffner.dev/og?message=adventure%20log`} />
diff --git a/src/routes/api/listGallery.json/+server.js b/src/routes/api/listGallery.json/+server.js
index 5d99523..6e8ed29 100644
--- a/src/routes/api/listGallery.json/+server.js
+++ b/src/routes/api/listGallery.json/+server.js
@@ -6,33 +6,6 @@ import { listContentFromIssues } from '$lib/content';
 export async function GET({ setHeaders }) {
 	const list = await listContentFromIssues('Gallery');
 
-  // const list = [
-  //     {
-  //       name: 'Japan',
-  //       date: 'April 2023',
-  //       description: 'traveled all over the country for a month with randi',
-  //       slug: '/gallery/japan',
-  //       image: 'http://placekitten.com/400/400',
-  //       alt: 'japan alt'
-  //     },
-  //     {
-  //       name: 'Morocco',
-  //       date: 'September 2018',
-  //       description: 'visited my sister during her peace corps mission',
-  //       slug: '/gallery/morocco',
-  //       image: 'http://placekitten.com/400/400',
-  //       alt: 'morocco alt'
-  //     },
-  //     {
-  //       name: 'Costa Rica',
-  //       date: 'December 2017',
-  //       description: 'two weeks of desayuno tipica with the boys',
-  //       slug: '/gallery/costa-rica',
-  //       image: 'http://placekitten.com/400/400',
-  //       alt: 'cr alt'
-  //     },
-  // ];
-
 	setHeaders({
 		'Cache-Control': `max-age=0, s-maxage=${60}` // 1 minute.. for now
 	});
diff --git a/src/routes/sitemap.xml/+server.js b/src/routes/sitemap.xml/+server.js
index 0ee4b56..c933372 100644
--- a/src/routes/sitemap.xml/+server.js
+++ b/src/routes/sitemap.xml/+server.js
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ export async function GET({ fetch }) {
   const galleries = await listContentFromIssues('Gallery');
   const projects = await fetchMarkdownPosts()
 	const pages = ['about', 'resume', 'blogroll', 'christmas', 'blog', 'work'];
-	const body = sitemap(posts, projects, pages);
+	const body = sitemap(posts, projects, pages, galleries);
 
 	return new Response(body, {
 		headers: {
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ export async function GET({ fetch }) {
 	});
 }
 
-const sitemap = (posts, projects, pages) => `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
+const sitemap = (posts, projects, pages, galleries) => `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
   <urlset
     xmlns="https://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
     xmlns:news="https://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9"
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ const sitemap = (posts, projects, pages) => `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8
 			).join('')}
     ${galleries
       .map((gallery) =>
-        post.isPrivate
+        gallery.isPrivate
           ? null
           : `
         <url>