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Your Personal Journey

by Teresa Gotay on June 7, 2009

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As Michael, our founder here at Art of Backpacking reaches his first month of backpacking, we’d like to Congratulate him on this grand voyage of his! Planning his trip in less than a year and selling everything he could to save every dollar for his trip has paid off as he travels from China, his first country, to his next, which will be Laos. As he transitions from his lifestyle back home to one abroad, it seems to be going very well!

As he travels around the globe, I am back home making sure Art of Backpacking is the very best it can be. We apperciate all the support and views out there! Its amazing to work on a website even when we are not on the same day sometimes!

If you would like to follow Michael’s journey around the world, check out his personal blog.

So we ask our viewers, did you blog your personal journey? What obstacles or memorable moments did you encounter as you adjusted to your backpacking lifestyle? We’d love to hear all about your personal experiences as you began!

Mike at Tiger Leaping Gorge

Article by Teresa Gotay

With a passion for writing and travel, Teresa unites the two through Art of Backpacking. Majoring in Journalism at St. John's University; she aspires to share her thoughts with the world, one way or another. If she isn't planning her next trip, you can find her writing and taking pictures around Manhattan, her hometown.

Teresa has written 89 awesome articles for AOB.

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Lilliy

Congrats on your first month of adventure!
I find it hard to blog while traveling too.. especially if you had a packed schedule when your resting you just want to lie down and do nothing or sleep. keeping notes help just to keep a reminder of the idea that went through your head.. I made lots of notes and concentrated on taking photos as much as I can to be able to tell the stories when I can finally sit down and blog..
Nomadic Matt

one month down, an eternity to go!
William Claxton

Great blog!

I have decided in the past week or so to go backpacking around South East Asia so am looking around at other blogs and forums for tips, advice & stories etc as I'm new to backpacking!

I will be keeping a blog to first of all write down all my preperations etc and then blog as much as I can while I'm out there. I think it's a nice way of keeping everything in the same place for Friends, Family & other people interested in travelling aswell as for yourself in the future to look back on.

I look forward to reading more updates on artofbackpacking and especially Skylabs personal blog as it is very similar to my ideas!
Dave and Deb

Congrats on your first country down. You are going to love Laos. I know that we did.
Michael

Thank you so much Dolce and Corbin!! It's been an amazing journey so far. I'll make sure to keep my personal blog as updated as possible. :)

I admit though, it is hard to find time to update the blog. I try to write down random notes in my notebook to make it easier comes the time to write. I find it easier to just go somewhere quiet for like an hour and write as much as possible. If I sit in the common area of the hostel or guesthouse, someone is bound to talk to me and I get easily distracted.
Corbin at i backpack Canada

Congrats to skylab! Way to go! Have fun in Laos!

When I took my first Gap year I blogged for the first 4 or 5 months. Usually with photos and stories and what not. I soon came to realize nobody was reading aside from my family and a few friends. My personal travel blog slowly faded away into nothingness. Before doing the backpacking thing I was on the computer lots, doing the nerd thing. Which was great. But once I started travelling, the more I was on the computer, the more tied to "reality/my old life" I felt. Once I dropped it "thought" I had more time to do stuff.

But by the end of the year of traveling, I was mad at myself for not keeping up with it. I can't remember how many times I was sitting around doing nothing, when I could have been writing/updating. Ah well, live and learn.