That’s quite right, WordPress! Because I, Jon, am going to become a world traveler in just 21 days! And yes, I did decide to change my blog over to WordPress and alter the title just a few days after first starting it. I have never had a blog before and I wasn’t sure how the services worked. At first I went with Blogger because it is so widely used and well known, but in the end I didn’t care much for the way it went about displaying comments and such. So, you will find my blog here from now on and the other will be deleted before I leave the country. And I must say, I love WordPress already! It’s much-swank!
On a side note, it has been recommended by some that I make a blog entry detailing the events surrounding the great “Packing of the Suitcase.” To be quite honest, meh, I don’t like to do what everyone else is doing. Now, I do look forward to seeing these posts from those others of you that will be doing them (pictures included guys!). Of course at the moment I have absolutely no intention of doing that. I’ll figure something out to replace it though. And if I don’t I’ll just do what everyone else is. Can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!
Writing from Fayetteville, NC | August 27, 2008
Categories: Fayetteville
Tagged: blogging, packing
Nope. But I’ve found blogging early this Sunday morning. Here it is 5 a.m. and I’m still unable to sleep so I decided to get one of the “things I need to do” done in hopes of relieving my mind of whatever thoughts might be keeping me awake.
And here I am blogging. The first post of my first blog. The blog intended to carry me through Japan and beyond. My travel blog. (Perhaps too many occurrences of the same word in so few lines. I’ll lighten up.) Nonetheless, what on earth makes such an event so important that it ought to have been done at any other time? Any other time could have been more important than sleepless 5 a.m.! Right now though I feel no time could be better.
So, shortly, let’s get the general dirt out of the way. You all know by now that I’m going to Japan. (You didn’t? Well now you do.) And that’s exactly right. No, really. No bull-crap. I’m leaving on September 17th for Tokyo where I will spend the next year of my life and you can read about it all right here! I’m going to make an attempt, not a promise, to post here no less than once a week. Whether it’s a weekly update of what’s goin’ on or just a short bit about my fascination with the way a door opens or the way toilets are built into floors (the latter with much less detail). You all can leave comments of strong approval and/or snide ridicule whenever you so desire.
As for while I’m in Japan, I do plan to travel extensively throughout the country as well as outside of the country. And I’ll have plenty of pictures to share and will include at least one picture with every post I publish.
So that’s the gist of it. Now I have just a simple request for those of you reading the blog. If I don’t already have them I would like to get your e-mail and home address. I don’t want to lose contact while abroad!
That said, let’s stay in touch guys! Take care, enjoy your year and keep reading for fantastic, adventurous new entries in the Jon is Traveling Astray saga!
Writing from Fayetteville, NC | August 24, 2008
Categories: Fayetteville
Tagged: first post, sleepless
