100 Posts Later, Here I Still Am

I will be somewhere in Maui by the time you read this on Monday, but as I write this I am laying in a bed in Las Vegas waiting for tomorrow to come so we can get the hell out of here.

But yes, I have managed to stick around doing this all 100 posts later. I try to have some kind of post going up almost everyday and I can’t believe that I haven’t run out of ideas yet. I guess it probably helps that I have 50 countries, 11 US states, and 4 continents I have stepped foot on/in and countless misadventures and I only started this blog in February (while almost completely ignoring it until July, and the little 3 week stint I had traveling in April/May). I have a lot to backtrack and write about and I’ve barely even started.

But just because I’ve made it to 100 posts doesn’t mean I’m even close to knowing what I’m doing. I’m pretty much just doing whatever I want, like I normally do in real life… So we’ll see how far that gets me. I’ve seen people that have started roughly the same time and have far more success. Like how Mel Giroux’s A Broken Backpack has blown up and even had a feature in Huffington Post, as well as Xam Zonio’s Xam Julliard, who has now been featured in Huffington Post twice. That’s pretty impressive to me and I like seeing them do so well (and of course love reading their posts).

I almost felt like I knew what I was doing when Ed over at Pizza in Motion posted a link as well as a little write up on my 6 People I Hate On Airplanes. It actually sent a decent number of people my way. And I was dying laughing to myself as I sat and wrote that post on a Monday afternoon because I wanted to get a post up that day and finally the idea hit. I promise I will do another, I do have a few more offenders to add to the list.

Other new travel bloggers I like reading are Gemma Cleaver over at Gemma Jane Adventures, So and Sandro at Drifter Planet. among many others.

Oddly enough I came across a travel blogger that I went to high school with! I never thought that would happen. You can check out Valerie’s blog at Valerie & Valise.

In other news, I did get to call out someone on Twitter via message the day we got here to Vegas. They didn’t seem to enjoy it as much as I did. I received a message from Worldwide Meetup, saying that it was the president and was looking for bloggers to feature on his new website. Then proceeded to go on to say that it will bring us (bloggers) more exposure and traffic (because he was featured in a local Newspaper recently?) but that he WILL NOT link back to the author’s blog.

Excuse me? Did you miss guest-post etiquette 101?

So I wrote back no thank you, and unless you plan to compensate your bloggers greatly for not linking back to their sites that they themselves write on (and rightly deserve the link) good luck. It’s a god damn common courtesy in the blogging world AND it is a slap in the face to me (and by me, I think I’m speaking for all of us). What that sounds like to me is: “Hi I’m president douche-canoe and I want you to write for me but I want to make it difficult (and we all know we’re all lazy on the internet) for readers to link back to you, the author. I want all the exposure for YOUR work, but I’m not going to properly credit you. ME. ME. ME. I. I. I.” (Okay, I didn’t send the thought I just wrote in quotation marks) Anyways he didn’t like it and informed me that I could have answered with a simple ‘no thank you’. Really? If You approach us and inform us (blogger peoples) that you won’t be linking back for the writing that we probably just busted our asses doing for you, I’m going to say no thank you and then I’m going to say why.

So I’m just gonna end that here. Let’s see what the next 100 posts brings. And also, let me know if there’s anything you’d like me to write about that I haven’t yet.

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