39 Days to go
Before I said yes to this strange and new assignment I thought what on earth could be said that hadn’t been said before and why on earth would anyone want to read someone else’s travel ramblings. Reading about how amazing a time some tanned stranger was having getting in touch with themselves in a zorb or how the local yaks were so accommodating and spiritual up some misty mountain somewhere didn’t seem like much fun to me. Could I write anything that anyone would find vaguely interesting? Would anyone sign up after I exhausted my yahoo address book? How embarrassing if no one I knew wanted to know. To get around all these uncomfortables I thought I’d write a private blog just for me. I guess that’s what they used to call a diary back then. I’ve never had one of those either.
Then STA Exporers came along, alright I admit it, the offer of an audience was all it took! So here is my second first post (actually this is probably about the 6th go, lets just say the other unpublished versions were a bit “out there”, “ravings of a lunatic” spring to mind. OK I’m just getting the hang of this alright! Glad I didn’t press that publish button. Hope I didn’t anyway!)
So what am I gonna ramble about? Well the first thing I thought of when STA Contacted me was probably, “Brilliant I need a massive load of toys to do this, what toys are they gonna give me?” The second thing was probably ”Wow I know, I can write about toys”. Unfortunately the answer to the question about what toys are they gonna give me was “nothing”, not a sausage. So with 39 days to go before we’re off on the travels and not even a sausage to help me, I will be writing about essential (\not really essential at all) techno toys for travelling including shiny flashy things that go beep, websites and other mumbo jumbo. Then hopefully I will have learnt how to type, use the spell checker and not use so many exclamation marks and will start writing about more interesting things using my new toys! Brilliant!
