This blog started with an excitement and passion for travel. I am not a huge Facebook user, and I felt this medium gave me a bit more freedom for sharing stories and photos. Originally there was some live blogging, which felt perfect later in the evenings when on vacation as a productive wind down activity. Never mind the reality that I enjoy writing.
Regardless, a lot of the documenting process was inevitably pushed into the future. I kept some notes here and there, and there are thousands of pictures archived from a couple different trips, waiting to be filtered through and posted. As vacations became busier, I would lose focus on daily updates. This could arguably be reflective of packing too much into a vacation, or it could be the reality that sitting in front of a glowing screen typing when in magical locations is plain silly.
Ultimately I wanted this to be a place to share experiences, because sharing is caring. Seriously though, it was both a combined way of having a centralized place to communicate my travels, and a way to outsource some memories for personal reflection. The former prefers quality, where the latter prefers quantity. I want to write more, and I want to create good content, but that desire for ‘good’ is holding back quantity. Quality vs Quantity is always a delicate balance, and particularly difficult when there are two goals at odds.
Of course life has gotten in the way and I am a bit ‘behind.’ The second half of the Thailand trip hasn’t been covered, Turkey has only a few posts, and the blog doesn’t even know about Italy. From here on out I will try to push a little harder, maybe post things that might resemble photo dumps, but if that is all I can muster it will still be better than nothing.
Thanks for reading.