When I took my first Gap year I blogged for the first 4 or 5 months. Usually with photos and stories and what not. I soon came to realize nobody was reading aside from my family and a few friends. My personal travel blog slowly faded away into nothingness. Before doing the backpacking thing I was on the computer lots, doing the nerd thing. Which was great. But once I started travelling, the more I was on the computer, the more tied to "reality/my old life" I felt. Once I dropped it "thought" I had more time to do stuff.
But by the end of the year of traveling, I was mad at myself for not keeping up with it. I can't remember how many times I was sitting around doing nothing, when I could have been writing/updating. Ah well, live and learn.
Michael Tieso
· 6 months ago
Thank you so much Dolce and Corbin!! It's been an amazing journey so far. I'll make sure to keep my personal blog as updated as possible. :)
I admit though, it is hard to find time to update the blog. I try to write down random notes in my notebook to make it easier comes the time to write. I find it easier to just go somewhere quiet for like an hour and write as much as possible. If I sit in the common area of the hostel or guesthouse, someone is bound to talk to me and I get easily distracted.
Dave and Deb
· 6 months ago
Congrats on your first country down. You are going to love Laos. I know that we did.
William Claxton
· 6 months ago
Great blog!
I have decided in the past week or so to go backpacking around South East Asia so am looking around at other blogs and forums for tips, advice & stories etc as I'm new to backpacking!
I will be keeping a blog to first of all write down all my preperations etc and then blog as much as I can while I'm out there. I think it's a nice way of keeping everything in the same place for Friends, Family & other people interested in travelling aswell as for yourself in the future to look back on.
I look forward to reading more updates on artofbackpacking and especially Skylabs personal blog as it is very similar to my ideas!
Nomadic Matt
· 6 months ago
one month down, an eternity to go!
Lilliy
· 6 months ago
Congrats on your first month of adventure! I find it hard to blog while traveling too.. especially if you had a packed schedule when your resting you just want to lie down and do nothing or sleep. keeping notes help just to keep a reminder of the idea that went through your head.. I made lots of notes and concentrated on taking photos as much as I can to be able to tell the stories when I can finally sit down and blog..
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When I took my first Gap year I blogged for the first 4 or 5 months. Usually with photos and stories and what not. I soon came to realize nobody was reading aside from my family and a few friends. My personal travel blog slowly faded away into nothingness. Before doing the backpacking thing I was on the computer lots, doing the nerd thing. Which was great. But once I started travelling, the more I was on the computer, the more tied to "reality/my old life" I felt. Once I dropped it "thought" I had more time to do stuff.
But by the end of the year of traveling, I was mad at myself for not keeping up with it. I can't remember how many times I was sitting around doing nothing, when I could have been writing/updating. Ah well, live and learn.
I admit though, it is hard to find time to update the blog. I try to write down random notes in my notebook to make it easier comes the time to write. I find it easier to just go somewhere quiet for like an hour and write as much as possible. If I sit in the common area of the hostel or guesthouse, someone is bound to talk to me and I get easily distracted.
I have decided in the past week or so to go backpacking around South East Asia so am looking around at other blogs and forums for tips, advice & stories etc as I'm new to backpacking!
I will be keeping a blog to first of all write down all my preperations etc and then blog as much as I can while I'm out there. I think it's a nice way of keeping everything in the same place for Friends, Family & other people interested in travelling aswell as for yourself in the future to look back on.
I look forward to reading more updates on artofbackpacking and especially Skylabs personal blog as it is very similar to my ideas!
I find it hard to blog while traveling too.. especially if you had a packed schedule when your resting you just want to lie down and do nothing or sleep. keeping notes help just to keep a reminder of the idea that went through your head.. I made lots of notes and concentrated on taking photos as much as I can to be able to tell the stories when I can finally sit down and blog..