Home again. No new travel stories to tell. What to do?
I've been home for 6 months and it's been almost 2 months since my last entry was posted. I've told all that I have to tell. Frankly...I miss having the opportunity to post stories/pictures about places and experiences that are well outside of the norm of what happens in the non-travel world. It's fun to relay the stories and to share the world with friends at home.
Reading the stories of others is fun...and participating in the forums helps too. But I guess I just like telling stories and trying to craft them in a way that might help friends/family share in the experience.
Does anyone else have a hard time making the transition from being a writer and conduit of the world back to being a semi-silent member of the non-blogosphere?
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Edit after initial post: I read my post and thought I sounded semi-depressed. That's not the case at all. I just miss writing new stories and thought others might as well.
Reply to this Does anyone else have a hard time making the transition from being a writer and conduit of the world back to being a semi-silent member of the non-blogosphere?
I dont mind much when I dont have blogs to write. Anyway, I sometimes have old blogs to tart up and upload. I just uploaded my blog about Thailand last week even though it has been over a year since I wrote it. :D
And travel talk on the forums and reading the blogs of others keeps me happy when I am not travelling.
Reply to this Hi Marc,
I'm assuming you're back in Chicago. A lot of people spend a lot of money to travel there as tourists, so while it might seem a tedious place to you at times most TBers for example have probably never been there (me for one).
Why not get out and blog about your local area :-)
Reply to this ...or take the chance to turn your blog into a book, as the Drop The World guys have started?
Reply to this Jonathon - would that be venturing into the world of "autobiographical fiction"?
Reply to this Actually...I've moved from Chicago to San Diego, California.
While I could write about the places in which I live...I'm not much of the type to write about my non-traveling life. That just makes it a blog...not a travel blog...which I think would belong on a different website. And the ways that I experience my home towns are vastly different from how I experience travel destinations.
Mel - I try to keep up with your pace of forum posts to satiate my blogging desires...but I lag way way behind... 😊 😉 :P :-D
Reply to this Ali, just a suggestion for someone who misses blogging but doesn't have any new travels to write about. How about doing something creative with the old stories?
I'd like to turn my own blog into a book, but no-one would buy it!
Reply to this Mel - I try to keep up with your pace of forum posts to satiate my blogging desires...but I lag way way behind... 😊 😉 :P :-D
Are you posting on the forums just to be competitive about post numbers? I can see why you wouldnt find that satisifying. 😊
Reply to this Less than 50 posts in a year an a half...I don't think that qualifies as trying to be competitive. Or at least not
succeeding in being competitive. :-(
Reply to this Or at least not succeeding in being competitive. :-(
Well, you are succeeding in doing the most complaining so you are at least outdoing me in something. :D
Reply to this I think that when you're at home you have the time, but not the experiences, as you have more or less the same routine everyday; but when you're on the road you have the experiences, but don't really feel like spending a few hours on the internet (or at least me!!!)... so, maybe, the solution lies on keeping a hand-written diary with all the cool things that are happening to you and then put them into blogs once you're back home... if your family is ok with no having stories to read for a more or less long time... I know mine wouldn't!!! :oP
Reply to this deni, agreed with u, i started mine on my may trip.
Reply to this Try writing about your home town. Every town has history or funny stories about the local life. Or, perhaps most valuable, local insight into secret things to do or ways of looking at something that outsiders would miss. It may test your creative writing capabilities, but give it a whirl.
It may also prompt you to take small side trips for the weekend, or do something that you have never done before just so you can write about it (I wouldn't mind reading an interesting account on cow tipping in Texas, for example).
Writing about past adventures is also a great idea! I have so many it's actually overwhelming to think about writing them all down.
Reply to this I agree that there are tons of opportunities waiting right outside your door that are great fodder for travel blogging. Travel doesn't have to be to some far off-continent, it can happen hours from your door-stop. I think it's a frame-of-mind. Sure you know the customs and the language, but that doesn't mean you won't can't experience something novel and new if you're open to it. San Diego has got to be different than Chicago; find out what makes it so!
When I was living in Kentucky I never thought there was anything "interesting" to do when I had the time but a little over a year since we left, I'm struck but all the dozens of great adventures and activities and places I didn't partake of while I was living there, and now would love to do when it's not convienient at all! This prompted me to start thinking hard about all the places, sights, experiences, people and adventures where I am NOW that I would miss out on if I left tomorrow.
Being able to write about your current home with the eye of a traveller but the insight of a local will probably make for a great blog!
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