Welcome to my new website!
For several years, I have maintained a blog and updated it only when I traveled. A small number of relatives and friends seemed to enjoy reading my journal of my travels in Vietnam, France, and and a short road trip I took with my son to Oregon to view the total eclipse there in 2017. I found the experience of creating the blog to very enjoyable at the end of a day of exploring wherever I was traveling to settle down at a local cafe or bar with my iPad and create a blog entry or two for the day. I also enjoyed reading and re-reading the blog afterwards as it provided me vivid memories of my travels.
I hosted the blog on Bluehost and used WordPress to create the content. Over time, I found it to be both cumbersome to use and difficult to modify beyond the basic blog format. This prevented me from adding additional content that I was interested in sharing.
After returning from my March 2019 trip to Southeast Asia, I wasn't paying attention and the credit card I used at Bluehost had expired and I didn't quickly respond to their emails to provide updated credit card information. I was easily able to restore my account, but I was very surprised and disappointed to learn that my several hundred blog posts had been deleted and could not be recovered. Fortunately, I was able to recover about 2/3 of my blog posts using the Google Wayback machine which takes periodic snapshots of web pages. I have recovered some of these and placed them in the blogs on this website.
This is my new website which is hosted on Weebly and is built using Weebly's content creation tools. I am excited about the new flexibility and ease of use that it provides and I'm excited to use it to create not only new travel blogs but also to post other content that I've been wanting to create and share. I hope you enjoy it!!
I hosted the blog on Bluehost and used WordPress to create the content. Over time, I found it to be both cumbersome to use and difficult to modify beyond the basic blog format. This prevented me from adding additional content that I was interested in sharing.
After returning from my March 2019 trip to Southeast Asia, I wasn't paying attention and the credit card I used at Bluehost had expired and I didn't quickly respond to their emails to provide updated credit card information. I was easily able to restore my account, but I was very surprised and disappointed to learn that my several hundred blog posts had been deleted and could not be recovered. Fortunately, I was able to recover about 2/3 of my blog posts using the Google Wayback machine which takes periodic snapshots of web pages. I have recovered some of these and placed them in the blogs on this website.
This is my new website which is hosted on Weebly and is built using Weebly's content creation tools. I am excited about the new flexibility and ease of use that it provides and I'm excited to use it to create not only new travel blogs but also to post other content that I've been wanting to create and share. I hope you enjoy it!!
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