About this Travel Journal

This is Joel Klebanoff’s travel journal. I started it in May of 2019. I will not try to add entries from previous journeys because I have a horrid memory and would undoubtedly get things wrong. I suspect nobody would care if I got things wrong. Other than me.

Are you the sort of person who seeks out adventure and wants to push life to the edge? Ae looking for an online journal that will let you live that life vicariously or that will give you tips on how to pursue that dream yourself? If so, then you probably should look elsewhere.

Don’t get me wrong. I love that you’re here. I hope that you’ll spend some time exploring this travelogue and then come back and explore it some more. But I’m a self-effacing neurotic. My travels tend to reflect that. I shy away from danger, or even just excitement. I don’t imagine I’m the only one. If you share my personality, I’d like to use it full time if you don’t mind. It’s not much, but it’s all I’ve got. But you’re welcome to follow along here if you wish.

Or if you’re the opposite of me, you might be interested in reading about how insecure people travel seeing as though you’re never going to experience that yourself.

I started this travel journal because my niece recommended that I blog about my travel. My niece probably thinks I never listen to any suggestions she gives me. You’re wrong about that, M. But I’m still not going to get a dog or cat; or take up a musical instrument; or start drawing or painting.

I’ll continue to write here about my travels until it is no longer fun. Then I won’t because travel is supposed to be about fun. At least, my travel is supposed to be about fun.

Then again, if you want to steer all of your friends, family, colleagues, neighbours, strangers in the night, strangers in the day, and anyone else to this journal and convince them to read every page here, and come back to check regularly for new pages, I’ll slap advertising on it when traffic to it suffices. Then I’ll make money off this journal, which will allow me to travel more and travel better. But I estimate the probability of that happening to be near zero, plus or minus 0.00000001%. I’d love to be wrong about that, though. If you’re the sort of person who loves to prove other people wrong, you know what to do.

I have not used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate any of the content on this site. Some people, perhaps many people, would argue that I didn’t use any natural intelligence either. You be the judge.

Note

Pardon My Typos

I compose the posts in this journal contemporaneously. I usually write them the same day, never more than one day after the day the posts describe. My primary goal is to enjoy my journeys and jaunts. Therefore, I don’t spend as much time editing the posts as I did for my work when people paid me to write (not travel stuff) before I retired. The consequence is, you’ll probably find numerous typos in these pages. I sometimes go back after the fact and edit them, but not always. And, even for those posts I do review, don’t count on me reviewing them closely. My travel’s the thing.

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No AI Was Harmed or Exploited in the Making of this Travel Journal

I write all of the posts in this travel journal entirely on my own. I do not employ AI in their creation. If you want to read the literary efforts of a machine, sorry, you won’t find them here.

(That having been said, while I don’t use AI in the principal writing, I believe AI underlies a spelling and grammar checker I started using at one point.)

Likewise, almost all of the photos that appear on these pages are ones I took. I don’t claim to be a great photographer or even a good one. It probably shows.

I put a fair bit of effort into creating these words and pictures. Please don’t steal them and post them as your own. That’s theft.

If you want to quote a few paragraphs, feel free. In fact, I’d be honoured. But if you do, please credit me and link to the source page.

Thanks.

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