Blogoversary - 17 years of blogging

This is an image of the village of Kyleakin in the Isle of Skye. Back in 2004, I was staying here in the local youth hostel, now closed down. It is the large white building in the photograph. It is here that I started to write a blog on a daily basis, on October 8th - I named it Northern Trip. The link takes you to the first entry I actually wrote; I have since added entries for the preceding two months. 

Northern Trip was succeeded by Atlantic Lines exactly four years later, when AOL kindly closed down the blogging service.  By that time, I had become deeply involved in the AOL J-land community, which survives today on Facebook. Three years ago, I changed blogs again, and am now here, on A Cobbled Road. Apart from these diary blogs, I have nearly 70 other blogs on Blogger, but those double mostly as websites. 

Do you still blog?

October

October is the month of my blogoversaries. It was 15 years ago that commenced updates on Northern Trip, which I kept for 4 years. It was 11 years ago that AOL decided to pull its blogging service, and delete each and every blog on the journals on October 31st. I have never understood why they could not just keep the blogs, without us being able to update or comment. Sigh. It didn't happen.

In October 2008, I set up Atlantic Lines, which I kept going for a decade. Things change, and during the times on Atlantic Lines, I drifted over to Facebook. Nonetheless, I like to keep a blog to be able to express my thoughts more fully.

In October 2018, I set up this blog A cobbled road, for that precise purpose.