unveiling early

Hey...

I find myself debating over when I should unveil this surprise to you.

On the one hand, I want you to open the link on the day that I'm due to fly out, see what I've created for you and know that I'll be thinking of you even though I'll be gone for a month.

On the other hand, I worry about whether you'd feel this would be a good idea and whether you would jump on board this little adventure with me. Not to mention getting any technical problems fixed up before I leave.

I guess I should first explain what this is.

Remember the last time I went on a trip (Japan Trip 2011)? I wasn't able to reply to your messages regularly, and sometimes I might disappear for days?

This was in part due to dodgy internet connections and in part (I admit) due to the fact that I was on a trip, and wasn't (and shouldn't be) reading whatsapp messages on my phone.


This time I thought that I might create a little blog about my 2012 trip.

It would partly be a record of my travels, as well as a series of letters to you.

I know that I could do a similar thing with Facebook or with emails, but they each have their shortcomings (which I will refrain from specifying here) and in the end I chose a blog format.

I know that this is a public format, and you may not feel comfortable with it. This is one of the reasons I wish to let you know in advance, in case you do not wish to go ahead with it. Also because what I have wrote so far is only half the story.

By now you may or may not have received an email invite from Google.
Clicking on the link in the email will give you write access to this blog.
I am hoping that as I write to you about my trip overseas, you would also let me know how you're doing. Pictures of what I'm missing in Melbourne, such as food, events, and how Peachtea is faring in his new home...

If you would like, I could make this blog entirely private so only the two of us could read it...