Here goes

Welcome. I'm starting this blog, here at the very end of the decade of blogs' ascendancy -- about five years (too?) late to the party, in other words, but so it goes -- for two reasons: first, as a hub for me to chart my progress in planning Travel Adventures; and second, as a hub for me to share my reports on said adventures as they unfold. The impetus being, I'm plotting an adventure even now, for next year. For late next year, though. Really I'm hoping this little project will make the wait more tolerable, provide an anchor for otherwise untethered dreaming. I mean, I don't even have dates yet, or flights, or, let's face it, requisite cash reserves. But I do have a destination in mind: South America. Chile and Argentina, in fact. Patagonia especially.

It remains to be seen whether the scope here will expand from there to include non-travel-related things. Fiction, short or creative non-, being the most likely candidates for inclusion. But that will come later, and naturally, surely. For now, let's just see if this post displays the way I want it to.