About those updates...

Does anybody pop by here ever anymore? I expect not. I don't think I'm in RSS feeds, so no niggling reminders are going out, either. Even so, I thought it might be a good thing to back-update this journal from a comfortable place--my bedroom, USA--so that there's a record of highlights from my year-long jaunt in the southern hemisphere. I'm not going to back-date them anymore, but I'll post the date of original writing in each entry. Hold on to your seats, imaginary readers. There are some gems in this gal's travel journals.