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canyonwalkerMy blog from two weeks in New Zealand looks complete, right? I posted a journal entry about relaxing after arriving home yesterday morning. That means I finished blogging less than 36 hours after the trip I was blogging about— a new record for longer trips— right? Alas, no.
As I noted in a few of the forty-some blogs about the trip so far, I skipped posting photos and details of many of my hiking treks and sightseeing visits. I did that in the interest of keeping the overall travelog better aligned to real time. But now it's time to go back and share a lot of those details.
How much is left to do? Ha, funny story. I made three successive estimates:
Well, if I maintain a pace of writing & posting 3 journals/day— which is actually fairly aggressive in terms of time commitment— it'll take 10 days. But I'll want to slip in a few non-NZ blogs amid that stream— y'know, everything else in life I might choose to write about— so it'll take at least, say, 12 days.
And how much time do I actually have?
Well, I leave for my next trip— the club trip to Cabo, Mexico— a week from Saturday. So I've got just 9 more days to get these travelogs out before I'll be starting my next travelog. ...And no, I'm not going to use my time on the beach in Mexico to deal with a blog backlog. I'm going to be adventuring— which means accumulating another blog backlog!
Ultimately this validates my approach of keeping my overall NZ travelog close to real time. I can go back and post pics & details of specific places at my leisure. Some will come between now and when I leave on my next trip, some will come after that trip. April and May are both going to be busy months on this blog.
As I noted in a few of the forty-some blogs about the trip so far, I skipped posting photos and details of many of my hiking treks and sightseeing visits. I did that in the interest of keeping the overall travelog better aligned to real time. But now it's time to go back and share a lot of those details.
How much is left to do? Ha, funny story. I made three successive estimates:
- First estimate: 10. Seat-of-the-pants estimate. I figured I have about 10 treks to write about.
- Second estimate: 12-15. I upped the estimate of 10 because I expect some of the longer treks will spread to 2 journal entries each.
- Third estimate: 30. 😳 I realized I could count the number of hiking treks and sightseeing visits I captured photos of. I have the images sorted in a file/folder system, so I just counted the folders. There are 25. Knowing there a few I've already shared while there are also a few that will take more than one blog to share, plus there are a few retrospectives to write, my best estimate now is 30 more blogs about New Zealand. 😰
Well, if I maintain a pace of writing & posting 3 journals/day— which is actually fairly aggressive in terms of time commitment— it'll take 10 days. But I'll want to slip in a few non-NZ blogs amid that stream— y'know, everything else in life I might choose to write about— so it'll take at least, say, 12 days.
And how much time do I actually have?
Well, I leave for my next trip— the club trip to Cabo, Mexico— a week from Saturday. So I've got just 9 more days to get these travelogs out before I'll be starting my next travelog. ...And no, I'm not going to use my time on the beach in Mexico to deal with a blog backlog. I'm going to be adventuring— which means accumulating another blog backlog!
Ultimately this validates my approach of keeping my overall NZ travelog close to real time. I can go back and post pics & details of specific places at my leisure. Some will come between now and when I leave on my next trip, some will come after that trip. April and May are both going to be busy months on this blog.
