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 Traveling and Blogging2004-04-22 15:24
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Jon Husband is spending a few weeks traveling around in Europe and meeting friends, from online or off:
He Stole My Dream ...

... he did, that wonderchicken:
"As many who read my stuff regularly know, I've been travelling around the planet for about 15 years now, and writing about it, when the mood struck me. My semi-secret dream has always always been to make a living from doing so -- travelling, writing, meeting people and drinking their odd, skull-cracking native beverages, writing about that, and moving on, weaving a bit."
I´ve been doing this, sort-of, for the last 5 weeks (two more to go) - London, the Chilterns, Paris, Amsterdam, the Dutch seaside, small-town Netherlands, Berlin, Antwerp (?), Toulouse (?).

Only problem is ... I have been to busy being 'in the present' to do much writing or blogging.

That's a big problem, if I hope to somehow make the living that allows the travel. So far, this has been made possible by the grace of my partner how many women would let their partner go off for 6 or 7 weeks, all on his own, dining with ex-girlfriends in Paris and Amstrerdam, not checking in but once a week.
I as well wouldn't mind making a living while traveling. At least I think I'd like to. Usually I find it quite exhausting to travel and take a while to recover from each time. But you see things you wouldn't have seen otherwise - different places, people, new friends.

But I haven't either found a way of making anybody actually pay me for it very often. So, if I scrape the bottom of my wallet I can go somewhere at the most once per month.

And as to the blogging, I find too that I'm usually so much in the moment that I don't get around to writing very much about what I experience when I go somewhere. I write best when I'm stationary and I have a big overview and some extra time. Sort of paradoxical.

Anyway, I hope you make it by Toulouse too, Jon, or that we somehow magically meet somewhere else.


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25 Apr 2004 @ 12:37 by Ton Zijlstra @212.238.192.198 : Hope he makes it to Toulouse as well
Hi Flemming,

It was a great pleasure to have Jon as a guest in Enschede, and I heard a lot that makes me convinced you two would have great conversations as well. Hope you meet him in Toulouse, Jon said he was planning to.....  



28 Apr 2016 @ 21:54 by Genevieve @188.143.232.32 : MmhvQMcnFEyDxJL
Time for all American Jews to come home and vote and fund for America, our American expaitconelism that allowed them to prosper and be a part of this great country, and leave the Rashid Khalidi and Reverend Wright buddy, and Muslim Brotherhood symp behind. New York Florida, California Pennsylvania we need you! ( Written by a registered democrat)  


29 Apr 2016 @ 04:57 by Jacki @188.143.232.32 : VqjbzGmYXXbzfwQuaAzW
16fI know this if off topic but I’m looking into starting my own blog and was wondering what all is needed to get set up? I’m assuming having a blog like yours would cost a pretty penny? I’m not very web savvy so I’m not 100% certain. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly apdrceiatep. Many thanks  


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