Well, I have no idea how long we'll be keeping this up, but last week we (Somchai and Brian) decided to start a blog for our family and friends to keep track of our travels, share some pictures and generally bore you with our comings and goings. Since I don't think this blog will zoom to the top of the popularity charts, I'm pretty sure if you're reading this you already know us and are doing so out of a sense of obligation. Therefore I'll skip the personal intros and just get into introducing the blog, after which you can decide if you want to keep reading.
As you know, we've been together for almost ten years now, and have traveled all over the place. In the early days, I (Brian) started keeping a travel diary, and Somchai was always a keen photographer. As the years passed, we got progressively more into it, and with better technology, we ended up with a pretty massive collection of photos as well as a couple books of pretty boring travel writing along the lines of what we had for dinner and similar stuff that would only appeal to ...well, basically noone. But we've shared some photos with the family and people seem to like them, and I do have all these words and I really wouldn't have a job if this became a photo only exercise, so I forced myself into the project and our travel blog is born, marrying somchai's great photos with my written drivel.
Not really sure how this will progress, or how long we'll keep it up. I'll try to begin at the beginning with our first trips. Unfortunately, I think Somchai had a disposable camera or something because the photos aren't very good, and of course aren't digital. But we'll probably scan a few of each place to liven up the deadly dull text. Also I didn't really write that much in the early years; in fact I first got the idea in a gift shop in Tokyo where I bought a few cute diaries and just started to write. So anything before the Tokyo trip will probably be made up, or at the very least heavily embellished. Also I haven't really read these things since I wrote them, and I'm sure there's a world of difference in writing to myself vs. sharing with the world (theoretically) so I assume I'll be editing heavily as I go along. Also we have two whole closets full of pictures, probably 100 photo albums. For all of our sakes, we'll be editing the selection severely so we don't bring the internet crashing down. And lastly, we're only including places that we went together. On our own we've been to lots of other destinations, especially in Europe and Asia, so if you're planning a visit somewhere, there's a good chance we've been and are happy to give you our opinions/suggestions. I'm sort of stalling for time because the photo guy aka Somchai isn't here and I wanted to try adding a photo or two in our maiden post to see if it works, but I think I'm gonna go ahead and post this and see what happens. Thanks for stopping by, and let me know what you think! (once a few real posts are up of course)
As you know, we've been together for almost ten years now, and have traveled all over the place. In the early days, I (Brian) started keeping a travel diary, and Somchai was always a keen photographer. As the years passed, we got progressively more into it, and with better technology, we ended up with a pretty massive collection of photos as well as a couple books of pretty boring travel writing along the lines of what we had for dinner and similar stuff that would only appeal to ...well, basically noone. But we've shared some photos with the family and people seem to like them, and I do have all these words and I really wouldn't have a job if this became a photo only exercise, so I forced myself into the project and our travel blog is born, marrying somchai's great photos with my written drivel.
Not really sure how this will progress, or how long we'll keep it up. I'll try to begin at the beginning with our first trips. Unfortunately, I think Somchai had a disposable camera or something because the photos aren't very good, and of course aren't digital. But we'll probably scan a few of each place to liven up the deadly dull text. Also I didn't really write that much in the early years; in fact I first got the idea in a gift shop in Tokyo where I bought a few cute diaries and just started to write. So anything before the Tokyo trip will probably be made up, or at the very least heavily embellished. Also I haven't really read these things since I wrote them, and I'm sure there's a world of difference in writing to myself vs. sharing with the world (theoretically) so I assume I'll be editing heavily as I go along. Also we have two whole closets full of pictures, probably 100 photo albums. For all of our sakes, we'll be editing the selection severely so we don't bring the internet crashing down. And lastly, we're only including places that we went together. On our own we've been to lots of other destinations, especially in Europe and Asia, so if you're planning a visit somewhere, there's a good chance we've been and are happy to give you our opinions/suggestions. I'm sort of stalling for time because the photo guy aka Somchai isn't here and I wanted to try adding a photo or two in our maiden post to see if it works, but I think I'm gonna go ahead and post this and see what happens. Thanks for stopping by, and let me know what you think! (once a few real posts are up of course)
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