Baja 2009-2010 Blog Plan

This year we intend to try to be a little crisper about our blog posts than we were last year. We hope this “shorter” version will focus on the more interesting aspects of our travels and avoid the negatives of travel writing described in the introduction of Paul Theroux‘s Ghost Train to The Eastern Star which we’ve quoted below. It certainly seems to fit most of the travel blogs Bob has looked at during his research on destinations and blogging. Theroux said:

"Most writing about travel takes the form of jumping to conclusions and so most travel books are superfluous, the thinnest, most transparent monloguing. Little better then a license to bore, travel writing is the lowest form of literary self-indulgence; dishonest complaining, creative mendacity, pointless Heroics and chronic posturing much of it distorted by Munchausen syndrome.”