Keaner Travels

I’m a bad blogger and haven’t been posting like I said I would in my last post. That’s not to say that I haven’t been chronicling my adventures from the last couple months, for some reason I’m still hesitant about putting them online.

I’ve been writing consistently about my travels since April, and have a folder full of posts about Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and even a couple from when I was tour guiding in the spring.

Quite a few of you have been messaging me over the last few weeks about where my updates are. So I’ve decided to try a different approach to end my blog-phobia – I’m going to refer to my blog as an online scrapbook. (I know it’s ridiculous and is the exact same thing as a blog, but I’m hoping the more familiar scrapbook terminology  will appeal to my inner crafter).

I promise to start posting my backlog of posts over the next week or so, and will get everyone up to date with all the fun times that have been happening in La Paz so far. So say goodbye to the blog, cause it’s online scrapbook time, you guys.

To be completely honest, I’ve always been afraid of blogs. From time to time in one of my past jobs, I would be asked to contribute to the staff blog, and it would stress me out so much. I think that there is something terrifying about posting something I’ve written online.

I’m a former tour guide by profession, so story telling comes naturally to me. Many of my friends have asked why I’ve never blogged my travels, and really the only reason is my ridiculous fear of writing online. My sister always refers to her twitter followers as “you guys”. I think that it makes it less scary and more personal. I’ve decided I’m going to follow her lead, and just straight up pretend I’m friends with everyone on the internet.

I’ve just left Toronto indefinitely and have some big adventures planned, so I feel like there isn’t a better time than now to start. It’s also probably the easiest way to keep everyone back home updated, since there are only so many postcards I can send. So here goes – It’s blog time, you guys.