Travel Blog? Bugger that!
As everyone is aware - yes, I know no one reads this blog, so everyone (me), is aware - I was intending to use this space to blog as I travelled from country to country around Eastern Europe this July/August. However, over the past few days I've come to reconsider this idea: in fact, I've decided to scrap it entirely. Why, you might ask, have I decided to scrap my journal? A few reasons.
Reason One: Past experience has taught me that I just don't have the willpower to sit down for an hour every day and write about what I did, where I travelled, what I ate, who I saw and so on. I don't even have the willpower to write those things down in note form, let alone the desire to then transform them into some kind of coherant blog post.
Reason Two: My travels tend to be a bit...x-rated. When I say that I don't mean that I go around participating in satanic rituals, animal sacrifice or mass orgy's; but nonetheless, I would likely have to censor a lot. As everyone who knows me knows, I hate censorship. But, unfortuantely, when publishing for the "public domain", it's sometimes necessary - some things I think are perfectly normal, like pissing in the shower, a lot of people take offense to (yeh bad example). If my travel experience was going to be like something out of "Euro Trip" or "How I Met Your Mother" then I'd be perfectly happy to blog about it. However, in the real world nothing is that corny and Americanised (repeated spousing of words such as "awesome" and high fives left-right-and-center to go with the rest of the PC humour), so I'm not going to even try to lower myself to that level.
Reason Three: No one cares. Really, who cares? Anyone who actually gives a toss will just ask me when I get back and I'll be happy to give them a rundown.
Finally, rather than waste an hour every day jotting down what I did in a notebook then spending a considerable amount of time finding a LAN cafe, typing it all up, formatting it and publishing it, I can spend that time reading, sleeping, drinking or doing something more productive than blogging about the blur that was the night before, the most recent epic queue or the latest statue I saw. So with that covered, don't expect to see anything substantial posted in the "body" section of this blog while I'm travelling (I may post a summary when I return). However, please do remember to check the right side of this page often -- I'll be posting quick notes, or status updates to show I'm still alive, as well as my latest phone number so you can call me while I'm away (I decided global roaming was a pain in the backside I just didn't want!).
Adios!