In this post I will consider my intentions for blogging, what I want to accomplish from it, and how I want to do it differently from before.
The last time I blogged was last summer in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Looking back, I'm glad that I kept a written record of what I did, yet I was also motivated by an academic requirement to record. I occasionally felt burdened by a need to creatively record my travels and to update everyone at home with what I was doing. That trip was only 2 months long. This trip will be 8-9 months. Thus, the exciting parts of my traveling will be more spread out. That said, I plan to write posts less often. Though they will be written less often, I hope to keep them brief, writing only the most intriguing details that pictures can't capture and uploading only the most eye-catching of those that can.
Writing briefer and less often will help me focus on absorbing language and culture without reverting back to English. It will also be easier for you to follow along because it will be more visual (provided I figure out how to easily embed photos), and there will be no tauntingly long posts.
Less work for everyone! Sounds like a plan...
