Site related nonsense
I’ve been doing a bunch of traveling — yay — and then I got nailed with a very bad cold — boo — so I never did get a Nerd’s Eye View traveler’s gift guide up this year. In the past, my gift guides have included stuff that I think is essential for travel, stuff …
We’re coming to the end of our first week of Passports with Purpose and we’re about 2000 dollars short of our goal. Considering this is only the fourth day we’ve been open, this is kind of amazing. Certainly, we felt confident that we’d be able to succeed, but it’s worth noting that we couldn’t have …
This has been kind of a crappy year. Work has been scarce and what I’ve found has been less than ideal. I spent the early part of the year in a job that I was so ill-suited for that I cried almost every morning at breakfast. When I was laid off, I was so relieved, …
Don’t you love the word “hoopla”? It’s so fun. Dictionary tells me it’s similar to ballyhoo or hullabaloo, another pair of excellent words with a lot of vowels. I also like the Shakespearean phrase “much ado about nothing” though what I am after here is a smallish ado about some smallish bloggy things where maybe …
Passports with Purpose is cooking along nicely. We’re making and fixing lots of organizational things as we go along but on the whole, it’s going great and we’re so grateful for the participation we’re getting. Thank you, everyone for your patience and generosity. Don’t know what the hell I’m talking about? Check back in a …
National Geographic’s fabulous blog, Intelligent Travel, and Ben’s Daily Transit both had nice things to say about my recent “Thin Edge” post. Thanks for the link love, comrades in travel! The prolific author of Less Than a Shoestring nominated me for a Travvie, submitting NEV in the best single author blog category. I don’t expect …