As many of you know, Jim and I have been exploring the world for the entire time that we’ve known each other (and we’re going on 25 years). We met in Bitburg, Germany in 1984, our first trip together was to Copenhagen, and we haven’t stopped since. Together we’ve traveled to over 40 countries, and individually more than that.
Trying to chronicle our adventures has taken us through bouts of traditional journaling and the postcard route, but honestly, we find those can be a chore. Call us indifferent, but we’d rather be out exploring than inside our hotel writing everyone we know separately.
A couple of years ago, we started our first website and have had some moderate success with keeping that up, but as our ideas progressed, our site didn’t. It stopped doing everything that we hoped it would do; the Internet has evolved and so have our interests, so we figured it’s time for a change.
Of course we really didn’t fully come to this conclusion until after our desktop computer was on its way to our next long-term destination, so we’re stuck trying to cope with starting this blog with our laptop in a hotel rooms. So far, so good. Let’s hope that we continue to have excellent connectivity.
Our plan is to write a story every few days and include one photo that hopefully will help tell the story. Since we are not constant travelers, but rather take advantage of our location with weekend and school break trips, there will more than likely be pretty large chunks of time when we don’t post anything. If you want to know when we’ve posted a blog, you can subscribe to this blog and whenever we have updated it will send a message to your email account.
For our very first blog, we are in our hotel room getting ready to embark on the next adventure. Our summer plans include Mongolia, Beijing, British Columbia, Oklahoma, Texas, Maryland, and Connecticut, then Munich and finally onto Ankara, Turkey where we plan to live for the next few years.
If you think you may cross our paths, let us know. We’d love to meet you and swap adventure tales.