Hello Again – It’s Been A While!

Well it’s been about 4 months since I posted anything on here, but today I’ve finally decided to get my butt in gear and start writing again!  If you’re wondering why I haven’t written in so long (a few of you have asked), there’s a few reasons.  The primary problem is that I’ve fallen so far behind I don’t even know where to begin writing and it feels like I’ll never catch up.  Story of my life – start something, get picky about every little detail so it takes forever to complete each task, get confused halfway through about what I’ve done and what I have left to do, get frustrated with my confusion, and then give up altogether.  I start a lot of things I don’t finish.  This blog is on the verge of turning into one of those things. 

I have about 30 entries half-written, but I tend to get some kind of writers block or get distracted by something more fun to do as I’m writing and then it takes me a while to go back and finish.  If you follow this blog regularly or have been paying attention, you’ll notice there’s a 3 month gap from July-Oct when I fell very far behind and decided to jump to the present instead of working on the past.  For a brief period (mid-October to mid-November) I did a decent job of staying current, but didn’t manage to make up for much of what was missing.  Then we went home for Christmas and I stopped writing at all since we were so busy visiting family & friends, and I haven’t finished an entry since! 

So, what now?  Well, the primary reason for this blog was to keep in touch with family and friends and keep a record of our trip for our memories.  But with the stories being so outdated, it almost feels pointless to try to catch up and I’m not sure anyone cares to read about something we did last July!  And for my own memories I’ve jotted down over 100 pages of notes about each day, but it takes a bit of effort to turn those notes into blog posts worth reading.  At this point, it feels like my energy would be better spent making nice scrap book when I come home instead of writing blog posts!

Overall, I started to feel like there’s no point to continue the blog so I let my laziness take over and stopped writing for quite a while.  But today I got a comment from new reader who found my blog while searching the internet for information, and it reminded me that another big reason I started this blog was to share what we’ve learned from our travels.  We’ve learned all kinds of useful stuff like which airlines are picky about carry-on luggage, what hotels are good or bad, what attractions are worth seeing, etc. and it would be a shame to not try to share any of that with people.  So I’ve decided to start writing again, starting with finishing some of those half written entries and see where I get.  I doubt I’ll ever catch up, but it’s worth a try!

As before, I’ll keep back-dating new posts to the date they actually relate to in order to keep things in chronological order, so you won’t necessarily see new posts on the home page here.  If you’re checking the blog regularly and want to just read new posts, please refer to the “Recent Posts” bar on the right hand side of the page.  Thanks again for reading!