Once upon a time, my website genius brother Stuart (who, despite a penchant for Thumper-like procreation, is still available for all manner of freelance internet work) created a website for me as a 40th birthday gift. The website was called www.neilwritestheworld.com (which, if you click on it now will take you to my other blog… confused yet?) and it housed all the rambling emails I sent back to friends and family during my round the world travels in 2003 and 2004.
When the big dot-com crash exposed the internet as a mere flash in the pan, Stuart (that's him on the left of this picture... cute huh?) and I decided not to keep paying some geeky Blackberry dude to continue hosting the website so it disappeared. But recently, I’ve received a couple of queries from friends as to its whereabouts because they have colleagues about to undertake extended trips abroad and wanted to direct them to tales of my experiences.
So now, due to their overwhelming public demand, the travelogues are back on this site permanently, or until the twelfth of never… whichever is longest.
If you want to read the stories in chronological order, you’ll have to scroll right down to the bottom and work upwards. They begin with four emails from a two-month trip I undertook to realise a long-held ambition to drive from one side of the United States to the other during the summer of 2003. There are then a dozen or so more from a seven-month round the world jaunt beginning in November 2003.
Enjoy (I hope) at your leisure.
When the big dot-com crash exposed the internet as a mere flash in the pan, Stuart (that's him on the left of this picture... cute huh?) and I decided not to keep paying some geeky Blackberry dude to continue hosting the website so it disappeared. But recently, I’ve received a couple of queries from friends as to its whereabouts because they have colleagues about to undertake extended trips abroad and wanted to direct them to tales of my experiences.So now, due to their overwhelming public demand, the travelogues are back on this site permanently, or until the twelfth of never… whichever is longest.
If you want to read the stories in chronological order, you’ll have to scroll right down to the bottom and work upwards. They begin with four emails from a two-month trip I undertook to realise a long-held ambition to drive from one side of the United States to the other during the summer of 2003. There are then a dozen or so more from a seven-month round the world jaunt beginning in November 2003.
Enjoy (I hope) at your leisure.
Oh, and if anyone can tell me how to get the graphic at the very bottom of the page into the header at the top (without the need for an advanced degree in programming or Klingon), I’d be much obliged.
