canyonwalker | Bloggin' Right Along

If all you've done is glance at my blog over the last few weeks you could be forgiven for thinking I'm still enjoying my trip to Australia. Well, I am still enjoying it... but only vicariously through my own memories as I catch up on publishing blogs about it. Note the by-line dates in those journal entries. I came home over two weeks ago now!

With this morning's blog about a beautiful upgrade on the flight home I am now done with journaling about the trip. Well, done except for the retrospectives, anyway. I have at least two of those still in the backlog. 😅

While I was finishing the trip at the end of December I didn't expect it would take me more than full two weeks to catch up on blogging about it. I thought, maybe one week. Then three things happened:

First, as always, the blogs in my backlog increased in number as things I initially thought could fit in one journal entry instead became two or even three. I thought this story would span twenty-some blogs. Instead it's nearly 50— with a few more to come.

As I've worked through the trip backlog since the start of January I've made a conscious decision to post blogs on non-Australia topics, too. That's why you've seen year-end retrospectives and news/current events commentary. I figured if I didn't fit such things into my daily cadence they'd languish in the backlog too long and lose relevance and interest (mine, if not also yours).

Speaking of cadence, I decided early on that I'd maintain a pace of three blogs per day. Less than that, and I sensed it'd take most of the month to clear. More than that, I decided, would be too much— both for me to publish and for people following my blog to read.

As I've worked through this backlog I've wondered if I might break my own record for bloggiest month. Currently my record is 84, from Sep. '23. If I maintain that 3-a-day cadence for most of the month, I'll set a new high! Though I expect I'll slow down in another few days here as my backlog clears out.