Occasional Travel Blogs

I enjoy virtual vacations. I don’t read travel blogs, but I love reading “normal” if you can call any of my friends normal,folks experiences as they take a break from the day to day go somewhere off the beaten path and take the time to write about it. Tom Evslin a long time friend has been sailing in Mexico. He was offline when on the water, but has landed apparently found a connection, climbed to 7000′ and has a great adventure write up today. The Curse of the Tarahumara

Thinking about Tom’s post, brought back memories of the very early pre-blog writing of Mark and Greg, aka Wizmo and Gizmo. Mark and Greg did a series of motorcycle adventures and posted text and photos on a website for their friends to follow along. This all occurred before the word blog was invented. The website is still up and worth a look http://www.whizmoandgizmo.com/ They put tons of effort into their sites, including contests every few days. I did this last year on when Lake Wenatchee froze as an email based charity fund raiser and will do it again this week if the ice holds as an official contest at www.lakewenatcheeinfo.com