I’m not a writer

I’m not a good writer. I have not claimed to be. That is not the reason I decided to start this blog. There are many different reasons to have a blog. For most it is to keep family and friends updated. Others choose to have a theme, such as pets or travel or Christianity topics or counting off things on their bucket list. For this past year as Mike and I have been doing some research on traveling and living full-time on the road, we have ran across many people’s blogs of doing just that. I have also run into nursing blogs, devoted just for nursing topics. There are a variety of reasons to start and have a blog, but normally they are devoted to one subject with many topics devoted to that subject. They write about what they know.

Actually writing the blog has proved a challenge for me. When I was younger I liked to write and I even started a book I thought would be really good. I’m not sure if anything I wrote when I was younger was good or not. My mom would have said anything I wrote was good but she is biased. Mike doesn’t really like to read but he says reading the blog posts are a little too long but he likes them. He says that the way I write is like a story. That’s how I have always wanted to write. I also know I usually fill in too much detail and make it too long. It’s a challenge on the blog because the blog system is not perfect. I’m still working out the details of how to actually do it and I either have too much writing or too many pictures per post for it to all work out okay. But that’s the beauty of embarking on something you have never done before, you get to learn!

I am also not a big picture taker. Frankly, I was going to let Mike continue that venture. Since he has come back from Iraq, his picture taking motivation has dwindled and sometimes we forget to even bring the camera! I could pick this up, but Bays are notorious for messing up pictures. I hate when it takes an hour to take pictures and takes away from the experience of the moment. Personally, I would rather not take pictures, but I enjoy looking at them and remembering later. So my challenge also involves taking pictures, or at least remembering to remind Mike.

The blogs that I read from time to time are people I have never heard of and have mostly never met. I am usually a silent reader and never make comments or let them know that I am there. But I like to read and benefit from interesting posts. People are so interesting and lead so many different lives. It’s fascinating (for me) to feel like I am seeing the world through their eyes. I was inspired to do this blog mostly because Mike and I do and experience some really cool things that most people never get to see. I do not claim to be a writer or an expert in any one subject, but Mike and I are adventurous and like to explore our world. One day we would like to travel and we wanted our families to be able to see what we are doing. Maybe one day I can have silent stalkers reading my blog, just because, as I do to so many others.