blogging

A little history:

If you didn’t know me during my senior year at my university, you’re probably not aware of my self-proclaimed blogging pioneership. Back in the days when people still used Friendster, Myspace was just getting started, and Facebook barely existed, I had my own LiveJournal, which I referred to as a “web journal”. “Blog” wasn’t widely used yet and was considered to be a silly new term.

On LiveJournal, I chronicled my senioritis adventures and the mishaps of a quarter life crisis that followed my graduation and entry into the “real world”. The first sparks of future travel blogging came in a few posts that recapped a winter holiday trip to visit family and friends in Ghana. Later, after volunteering in Brazil, wanting to document the amazingness of it all for a travel-oriented audience led me to Travbuddy.com.

From there, I branched out to WordPress.com and now here I am in my own little corner of the interweb, trying to get comfortable with using WordPress.org. For a few weeks I’ve been tweaking and adjusting and trying to learn a little about css and plugins in order to get this site to reflect my style. I’m feeling pretty happy about the way it’s turned out so far.

But more importantly, my mind has been consumed with travel and I’ve been brainstorming ideas for future blog entries. I can’t wait to get started. So welcome to Girl, Unstoppable, I hope you have fun here. I definitely plan to!

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My mind is full of scattered half thought-out creative pursuits, but there are just two things that have never gotten lost in the mix. Writing is one of them (the other is music). Regardless of any new interests I’ve picked up over the years, gathering my thoughts and turning them into verbal creations has always been at the forefront. And it’s especially gratifying when I’m on the subject of travel.

In July, I was preparing for the trip to South America and felt like it would be a good time to launch a personal blog. I didn’t know where the blog would lead, but I knew that I wanted it to relate to other travelers, take others with me on my journeys, and inspire people to have their own adventures.

At times it felt purposeless, like the words I put together floated off into the air, popped, and disappeared like a child’s bubbles. But as time and blog entries go by, I increasingly feel like my words are heard (or should I say read?), even if they only invoke a simple, “I know what you mean.”

I’ve had a wonderful time cultivating this blog over the last six months. Now I am taking it to a new spot where it will hopefully have more room to grow. I will post the link to my new blog shortly after the New Year. The target date is January 2, 2010. Stay tuned!

Note: Blog move accomplished, 01/02/2010

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