Intermission: The Epic Bloggers

G’day Everyone,

At the beginning it was relatively easy to keep our blog up to date, with long bus rides, train rides and evenings by the pool bar providing the hours required to write everything down. Eventually we started to lag behind like a online multiplayer on a slow internet connection. Meanwhile the events of each day seemed to become more grand and adventurous making each post longer. The blog’s intention was to keep our friends and family (Hello!) up to date with our adventures, but most importantly for us it was a medium for us to keep a travel journal so that we can remember, and even revisit through storytelling, the places we’ve been, the people we’ve met and the things that happened.

Looking back through the blog from time to time it already feels like the events of the first few posts happened in another lifetime. A short while into the blog the idea of publishing everything into a book for ourselves was mentioned to us, at the time it seemed a bit self indulgent, however as the blog grew and the adventures continued the idea of matching the posts to a collection of our photos and producing a full colour coffee table book started taking shape, then the shape grew larger and larger and we were all crushed under the weight of the book. Possibly.

At this point in time we are roughly four weeks behind and trying hard to play catch up. The problem has always been finding time to sit and write the blog. For the last month or so, finding any spare time is best spent doing as little as possible, like sleeping. Being on the road (holidays or not) for so long is physically and emotionally draining. We’ve spent the last week in Austria, where we had a fantastic time at Laura and Headley’s wedding, but decided that maybe we should let them have a break and some time to themselves, and seeing that as good advice decided to do the same for ourselves.

So here we are, deep in the south east of Austria staying in a homely self-contained apartment in an old farmhouse attached to the farm, in a place where not many non-German speakers (if any) have ever been before. The landscape littered with hills, forests, villages and churches and smothered in thick snow. You may read about it in a few weeks when the blog catches up. Our aim is to do as little as possible, and in this time we have been able to write a few blog posts, sort through photos and just relax in general.

The hard thing about writing the blog so long after the events you are writing about have taken place is remembering what actually happened. When you do arrive at the starting point for a new post the memory takes form chronologically with each event unfurling after the next. This is where the blog posts tend to become rather long, (and seem to be getting longer) as each event seems as important in the grand scheme of things as the next, whether they are or not. But we like to think that the small insignificant details add colour and flavour to the story, like red cordial in beer, it may not be the best idea but some people drink it.

So on that note, as we sit here by the heater in our little snow covered cabin in -3 degree temperatures, remembering events that took place in 35 degree tropical jungle. I’m going to have to ask you, as the reader to make a small allowance of us. Be patient with the frequency of our posts and their longwinded lengthiness. Remember that this blog is as much for us as it is for everyone else.

Thank you for following along with us, and please keep posting comments as it is really nice to hear your thoughts. For those of you who want, you can follow the blog by clicking ‘follow’ and providing an email, this will send the new posts straight to your email.

Your only other option is to just stop reading… Now.

Lots of love,
Drew and Prue Elmer