welcome travel readers and a bit of a warning

1982-1994

Wmtc has some new readers who are interested in following my travels. I feel I should warn you new folks: it's a lot of words. Like, all text. 

We do love taking photos, but we wait til we get home, sort through all the pics, and post the keepers on Flickr. Then I usually go back to the blog posts and add links to the photos. It's old-school, but it works for me. 

This blog is my writing outlet. When I first started blogging in 2004, I was still writing professionally. This was my place to process and connect. Twenty-one years later... all my writing lives here. I would continue to write wmtc even if no one read it. But of course I love that people do. 

Fun fact: I've been keeping travel journals since my first trip to Europe, with my dear friend NN after we graduated university in 1982. I have paper journals from every trip I took from 1982 to 1994. After that, I started bringing a laptop and saving them digitally (and I still have those files, well backed-up). In 2004, I started keeping my travel diaries here. That's a lot of words!

Our trip actually starts locally tomorrow: we drive down to Comox, about three hours from here. We'll stay overnight for an early-morning flight on Tuesday, April 30 -- a very long travel day. I'll check in when we're on the other side of that.