This is a sincere and heartfelt thank-you to all the people who have stayed with me throughout my adventures in South East Asia this year. I really appreciate your comments, personal messages and ongoing support and encouragement.
Blogging on the road has been a real challenge. It’s frustrating. I see new and exciting things every moment of the day and remind myself that I must write about it. I’m constantly scribbling in my notebooks with the intention of transposing them later. I often find myself glossing over things quickly with the intention of writing more about the things that really matter at a later date. But when I sit down in front of the computer, my mind starts going a mile a minute. I’ve got so many stories to tell and they’re all bouncing around in my head like loose marbles. It’s hard to focus on just one because they’re all good.
I’m finding that blogging is hard when you’ve got five minutes to entertain your readers. I don’t have time to proof-read my entries or check for mistakes. I don’t have time to think of perfect titles and catchy names for my posts. I don’t have time to respond to comments (but I will when I find a place to lay my head for longer than a day or two).
This is bare bones blogging. When I see that some of you are still with me, day after day, it makes me appreciate you even more. Thank you.
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It’s one of two situations when you travel. You either have the time to blog enough or you don’t. Most of the time, it’s better to enjoy your travels and have fun, as well as discover new things than spend time in an internet café.
Some people fully document their trips and only write about them in detail when they come back. Others do it while they are traveling.
As much as I can appreciate the dilemma, I enjoy reading about travels while they are happening, because of bit of hindsight that you have afterwards. Also, when it’s happening to you, you are in awe, something that is always hard to recreate when you go back.
Anyways Carrie, looking forward to seeing you again in a few months. Have fun in America and Canada. Say hi to John.
My guilty pleasure is checking your blog as often as possible to live through and view the world as you travel and ‘Carrie’ on!! Bare bones or not, any effort you put forth to share your journey is welcomed with delight, curiousity and wonder. It’s incredible that you have the opportunity to explore so many exotic places, many of which most of us will never see. I can’t think of anyone I’d rather learn from via written expression!
Your blog is always a pleasure to read and is a great way to stay connected while you travel Carrie. Blog-On!
Thanks for taking time out of your holiday to share the happenings of your vacation. When traveling in Thailand I had a hard time blogging is you have so much you want to do and spending hours in a remote, sometimes dodgy internet cafe is not necessarily what you want to do with your time.
Take care and have a safe trip to Laos!
Everything you do is amazing…. even without perfect titles etc… I think that everyone who has traveled outside of Canada can understand how incredibly difficult it is to write an eloquent email/blog post at an internet cafe with all the hustle and bustle distracting you while the clock ticks away. Even with unlimited internet time, I am finding it hard to keep up my blog. My eyes have been hurting me a lot lately from hours upon hours of editing video and photos, so I’ve had to cut down on my extra curricular computer time… I don’t want to damage my eyesight permanently so I’m going to have to be more strict with myself. That means less FBing!!!
So please don’t feel pressured to write everything. There is so much on your blog to read. And I know I always find something in your categories or archives that inspires and enlightens me. If you don’t have time, maybe just link up some of your old posts or point us in the direction of a fun category?
heart,
Lisa
You blog is wonderful to follow. So don’t worry.
I remember that feeling of unability, when I was in India and sending group e-mails to friends in home. It is kind of similar to blogging. It feels you cannot tell all you’d want to. You forget things and all…
Have you ever tought a career as a travel writer, by the way?