Tips On How to Keep Your Blog Updated While Traveling

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by Michael Tieso on August 8, 2009

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I know from experience that it can often be difficult to catch up with your blog while traveling. All the fun, sun, activities, drinking, socializing, and your new friends can take you away from sitting in front of a computer writing about your day. You write for memories sake and perhaps keep your friends and family at home informed that you’re doing okay. It can be difficult to remember all the details if it’s been awhile since you last wrote. Here are a few tips to help you organize yourself with your blog.

1. Take loads of pictures and videos. You can go through them later and delete what you don’t like but take as many as you can and capture the scenery and people you meet. It’ll spark up what you did during that day if you do happen to fall behind on writing.

2. Write in a small notebook a few notes of your day. This is especially helpful if you have a few days trekking with no electricity.

3. If you happen to be carrying around a laptop, just write down a few sentences in the morning or before you go to sleep on WordPad and save it to your desktop for when you get online and can finish it up. This way you won’t have to write a weeks worth when you do have more time to be more detailed.

4. Set aside a time and day when to write. Say to yourself that you WILL catch up on your blog tomorrow at 12pm. That way you know to do whatever else you want to do during that day after 12pm when you’re done writing.

5. Sleeper trains are one of the best ways to catch up on writing. They tend to be somewhat boring anyway and depending on the train, you have some privacy and loads of time on your hands. I don’t suggest buses as its not as private and makes you stand out a bit more.

6. Internet café’s can be costly when updating a blog often. Try to write as much as you can in your notebook before sitting down on the computer. Go down memory lane before getting on the computer. It’ll all flow automatically from there.

What are some of the things you do to help you keep your blog updated frequently? How often do you update yours?

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Author: Michael Tieso

Michael Tieso started Art Of Backpacking with a vision of sharing cultural knowledge. As a backpacker, he is always on the move. He’s music obsession started at 11 years old and continues as a DJ.

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  • Good advice. We leave in 4 months and I spend so much time on my computer now, that I am worried I am going to be spending my entire time traveling online.
    When we traveled Africa last year, we had a small flash drive, I wrote my posts at night ahead of time and then took the flashdrive with me to the internet with everything already done. Connections were slow and we couldn't use our laptop at a lot of places, so the mini drive worked great!
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