Keeping up with blogs

Posted by Ian in Preparation

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Since Im still in the early planning stages of my trip — working a 9-5 hour day; training for blackbelt; attempting to maintain freindships, relationships, and hobbies; and getting the house tidied up and ready to vacate — I don’t get a huge amount of free time to set up the blog.

Actually, with all my free time, I find myself reading up on WordPress, CSS, or the MANY interesting travel blogs out there on the web. So many stories and adventures. So many travelers to meet, and possible additions to my own itinerary.

Hell, after reading MyTimeToTravel post on Japan, I am trying to work out how to factor that as a leg in my journey. Maybe a later date though? After all, I could see long-term travel easily becoming a lifestyle choice.

Just this morning — when trying to muster the courage to get out of my nice, warm, double bed and get ready for work when it’s only 8 degees outside — I used the iPhone to read up on some blogs.

information overload

I’d like to know how other people follow and discover their favourite bloggers. For me, so far, it’s been:

Twitter #rtwsoon #rtwnow #travel #ff #lp tags. If there are more, let me know, I’m new to tweeting.

Facebook fan pages.. Not as great as I’d hoped. Clogs up my personal facebook home screen. I’d prefer to be able to login to facebook as my blog, & read that way.

Google Reader: when I find a blog that’s very interesting, with a couple of updates a week, I subscribe to the RSS feed

Stumble Upon: haven’t quite figured this one out yet. I thought it was just a site for finding something random when bored at work

How do you follow travel bloggers? (also an opportunity for you to comment and link me to your blog)

Ian Cartwright

is a guy who gave up his career and mortgage for solo long-term travel. He travelled extensively across Europe for a year before heading onward to North Africa. He is now planning a trip to Latin America. As always there’s sure to be plenty of laughs, tears, and misadventures along the way.