It’s time to tidy up!
Let’s tidy up this blog!
As of today, I’ve backed up all blog posts, all photos, all comments, all headers, all videos, everything, onto three different remote harddrives. Whenever I publish a new post, I always back it up onto my desktop computer’s harddrive, but every once in a while, I back up everything onto the remote harddrives (yes, a full backup of all data onto each of the remote drives). I want to keep this blog happy and healthy. If the live site crashes, I want a backup. And a tidy one, at that. 🙂
But you folks don’t have to lift a finger. You don’t have to do anything except read along, and comment every now and then if you wish. And yet, if you’d like, there are things you can do to help the blog.
You can sign up to receive (“subscribe” to) blog post notifications in the upper right hand corner of this webpage. Type in your email address, then click the “Subscribe” button. You’ll get an email with further instructions. After you’ve completed the sign-up process, you’ll get a brief, text-only email notice whenever I publish a new post. If you wish to unsubscribe, there’s a link to that too, no problem. There are currently 106 people signed up for this service on this blog.
As well, let your friends and co-workers and relatives and neighbors and exercise/hobby buddies know about this blog. Tell other people you meet in campgrounds about this blog. People who have never gone camping enjoy this blog. People who are thinking of buying a rig and going RVing enjoy this blog. People who are downsizing from a large motorhome to a travel trailer like this blog. Maybe even more importantly, people who used to go camping/RVing, love this blog. Here’s the link … http://www.travelswithtowhee.com.
Share that link, email it, post it, facebook it, tweet it, whatever social media you use, please share the link to this blog. I don’t buy subscribers … many blog posters do, but I don’t. When I started the blog back in August, 2016, by the end of the first month there were nine people reading the blog daily, for the whole month. Today there are an average of 218 people reading the blog every day. 🙂
Let me know if you want a larger image of any of the photos on the blog … I’ll email any of them to you. Two people have done that this past year and I emailed them a larger version of the photo that each of them wanted. I also emailed the very largest version I have of one of my photos to a print shop, as one reader of this blog wanted it printed and framed for a wall hanging. Could I have sold the photo/image to that person? I suppose, but I was just really pleased. 🙂
Click on photos to enlarge them. For videos, click on the little square/box image in the lower right hand corner to enlarge the video … or click on the link to YouTube also at the bottom right of the video, to open the video in YouTube if you’d rather.
Comment. Please comment. Your comments make my day. I love comments. 🙂
The list of countries where people live who read this blog started out at two countries … Canada and USA. Today, it’s up to 96 countries around the world. Of course, some of those folks will likely have simply looked in at one or two blog posts and then they haven’t continued to read, but at least we have had those visitors here, from all around this wonderful planet. I’ve received lots of spam, too, but I don’t count those countries in this list. The latest countries to join the list are …
Bahrain (Wikipedia article here)
Honduras (you may need to click on “English” in the upper right hand corner to translate the page) (Wikipedia article here) The President of Honduras, the first woman President of Honduras, is Iris Xiomara Castro Sarmiento.
Iceland and here (Wikipedia article here) The Prime Minister of Iceland since 2017 is Katrín Jakobsdóttir. She is Iceland’s second woman Prime Minister.
Nicaragua (you may need to click on “English” in the upper right hand corner to translate the page) (Wikipedia article here)
Taiwan or here. The island of Taiwan is actually the “Republic of China”. Mainland China is NOT the Republic of China. (Wikipedia articles here and here). I was in Taiwan, three or four times, when I was 5-11 years old and we lived in the Philippines. I loved Taiwan.
The politics between Taiwan and mainland China are incredibly complicated. Taiwan truly is the “Republic of China”. What we here in the USA think of as “China” is actually the “People’s Republic of China”. The 2016 President of the Republic of China (the island of Taiwan) is Tsai Ing-wen. She is the first woman President of Taiwan. She studied in London (among other places), and received an LLM (a Masters of Law degree) from Cornell University, and was a law school professor. She’s darned smart, and from what I read she’s a caring, humanitarian person, and an incredibly effective leader/administrator of Taiwan, a major world power even though it’s “only” an island.
These countries and these women, and so many others, have so much to offer the world and are making a difference. Here at home, I sit at my desk and worry about the safety of my little blog and hope for comments to the blog. Here’s to all of the women and men who are creating a world of peace. A world of peace.
Ok, now that THIS blog post has been published, I’ll go right now and back it up onto those remote harddrives. Tidiness counts! 🙂