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Some of these articles about writing and publishing deal with travel blogs – where they are and how they should work. In addition, my own year-end summaries and some Tech stuff related to writing and publishing are included.
If you are looking for regular travelogues, head for the Destinations page. If you want to learn more about the world around us, look into the other pages in the Specials menu: Travelling and World Abstracts.
2025 is out, here is 2026
2025 is over and this article is a look back at Sandalsand’s travels and articles. As usual, you will find many exciting destinations….
Who am I? A chat with an AI
How well does an AI chatbot know me? What can it reveal about my travels and writing style? And how does Sandalsand look from the outside? Like the…
2024 is out, here is 2025
2024 is here and this article is a look back at Sandalsand’s travels and articles. This year I reached several exciting destinations. Also…
2023 is out, here is 2024
2023 is out and this article is a look back at Sandalsand’s travels and articles. This year I reached several exciting destinations. Also, read up…
2022 is out, here is 2023
2022 is out and this article is a look back at Sandalsand’s travels and articles. It was another exceptional year. There was only one trip abroad,…
Website Optimisation (SEO)
Website optimisation (SEO) to make it great for search engines is a long way to go. Over many years, savvy people have come up with advice on…
2021 is out, here is 2022
This article is a look back at Sandalsand’s travels and articles in 2021. It was another exceptional year. There were no trips abroad, but in return…
My backlog is growing. How do I feel about that?
These should have been days of happiness. Instead I have for months been sorry for what is happening. I have been growing a huge backlog of…
2020 is out, here is 2021
This article is a look back at Sandalsand’s travels and articles in 2020, and a hopeful glance into the new year. Every year is different, but I…
What’s with a name, for example Sandalsand?
The Sandalsand name came a bit by chance. In the summer of 2011, I gradually felt I wanted to start sharing my travels on the Internet. I looked…
Bucket list for 2020 and beyond
No, I am not into cross stitching, so the featured image is a fake. The bucket list for 2020 of places I want to go is not a fake, and many of my…
2019 is out, here is 2020
When the fireworks are over and a new year has dawned, I publish an account of what happened in the previous year. This article is about 2019 in…
Travel quotes
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful.
Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter.
You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about; I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking 12 miles for four buckets of water.
And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people — Americans and Europeans — come back and go, ohhhhh. And the light bulb goes on.
