Hello and welcome.

This is the first post on my newly commenced blog. So if you are reading this, you are one of my first readers. Congratulations! Hopefully in a year to two, when you are still following us, and the blog has become prominent in the blogosphere, you will be able to reflect on the fact you were on board first! Maybe I will be able to find a way to thank you!

Anyway, my name is Bruce, and I am going to write a travel blog (There is more information about me on my ”about” page if you are interested) Just what the world needs, you say? Another travel blog. I expect there are probably 10 million or more travel blogs of various types out in the blogosphere already, So why another one? Well, although this is still to develop, I think I will be able to appeal to a specific group of travelers.

I love to travel, like so many people. I envy those young people who take off with a few thousand dollars in their pocket and spend 6 or 12 months traveling the world, living on a few dollars a day. It is one of those things that I wish I had done when I was 20, but as that was 1/2  a lifetime ago,it is an opportunity long since missed. However, in a different format,  I think it is still possible for a “middle aged” travelers to visit some of the same places I would have 20 years ago, and live some of the same experiences.  Being over 40 though, there are some things that are going to need to be quite different. Some comforts, like private and reasonably comfortable sleeping arrangements, will definitely need to be different. 

So, that is what I am going to talk about. Long term travel, for non-backpackers and non-pensioners.  Oh yeah, I am also going to drop heaps of photos of my travels on the site, as well as a lot of my personal, non-age related travel posts, stories and reflections. Sounds boring already!

 Stay with me…please.