It's been almost ten years since my last post here, but I did say that I might come back.
I had taken the decision to port my blogs over to my Weebly website, which went quite well for a while, but the cost of maintaining that became a wee bit burdensome, especially as Weebly was bought out by Square, and they're really only focused on sites that generate money.
Being cheap, I copied everyone of my blog entries, and there were a lot of them, to Google Sites. Sites is free, beyond the annual fee I pay Google that is, and was quite a good home for the blogs, up until I made a monumental error in 2023.
A message came through on my 'phone about tidying up my Google work area. I happily went through the instructions, glibly passing the warnings that my actions couldn't be reversed, and saw that my Google storage space was looking much better. Then I went onto Google Drive.
Yes, I had managed to delete, permanently, twelve years of Airstream blogs. Gone. Completely.
It's my fault entirely, I hadn't read and understood the instructions, and I realised that I couldn't really get upset because there was absolutely nothing I could do to retrieve this self-inflicted situation.
In 2023, I didn't do any Airstream blogs, but I did open up a WordPress account for my more general meanderings, and that is still running.
I did have a bit of an epiphany when I realised, just this week, that the Blogger account I'd started with, this Blogger account, was still active and yes, there were the original entries from 2011 through to 2014. So not twelve years lost, just nine. Hey, you take the wins when you can.
For the 2024 camping season, I will start my Airstream blogs going again. There's a kind of neatness to it being ten years since the last entry. Towed Haul is still in hibernation in London (Ontario) at the moment, and will be until the end of April, which is only a few weeks off now. We'll get her home, clean her up and plan some local trips. Then, hopefully, we'll have a few more blog entries to retain for posterity.
