In 2008 I had a Wordpress website that was called 'The Intrepid Traveller'. It seemed like a good idea at the time. It was an opportunity to record all my travels around places in the world, friends I'd spent time with, things I'd seen, like this beautiful waterfall at Vintgar Gorge in Slovenia, history, and information I'd learned and photos I'd taken. I still think it was a good idea but several years ago, I got very disappointed by the number of advertisements that popped up all over the site, none of which appears to be relevant to what I'm writing about. Personally, I dislike unsolicited advertisements at the best of times and to see them 'interfering' with what I'd written was offensive.

Meanwhile, my Lasting Impact site was transformed in 2022 from its business focus. The wonderful Yvonne Ward completely changed the design and now it can continue to unfold as I write blogs about Thoughts that come to me which, to my amazement, still attract the odd enquiry for my book or an invitation to speak at some event or other.

In transforming the old site, I've introduced a new page for my travel blogs which is simply called 'Travels' and you can find it here. 

Two thoughts came to me as I transferred the text, made obvious changes, and inserted the photos. One was the immense and therapeutic pleasure it gave me to reminisce - I kept finding myself smiling as I looked again at some of the photos. The other was the realization that the task was enormous and it would take me months to complete it. However, this thought was soon dispelled as I brought back to mind the pleasure it had given to me to achieve the first of very many posts. After all, how likely am I  to dip into my own blog from time to time, just for the sake of it?

As it unfolds, you might like to check out the index to see if there's anywhere on the list that you've visited and, if so, leave me a comment and we can reminisce together. And, who knows, you might like to start your own travel blog, just as I have.