And happy Bastille Day!
Yeah; I know the French version of our
Fourth of July probably doesn't ring many bells with the vast
majority of you, but I do know that we have a couple of people who
read this everyday who live in France (bonjour, Thierry, bonjour,
Nathalie!) so I figure we might as well mark the day, right?
That got me to thinking. And that, as
we all know, can be a dangerous thing. I've been writing these
little...whatever you wanna call thems for 16 years now, since 2001.
Over those 16 years, I wonder how many other countries we've touched?
I know that when I write my trip blogs there's a little thing you can click on to tell you what countries
readers are from (or, at least, in which countries the servers
they're using to connect to you are located), but I've never actually
set anything up for this little thing.
Looking at the statistics for the
Blogspot site makes me laugh, on occasion, if only because of some of
the, uhm, interesting places from which we get hits. The U.S., of
course, always pops up first, followed by the countries in which we
have friends we're visiting—France, or Belgium, or Germany. But
then it gets weird. One year, India provided us a large chunk of
readers—in fact, we even received a few nice notes from several of
them—another time, it was South Africa. Another, Russia.
How people from those countries
stumbled across a blog from two Americans traveling in Europe (or how
their spiders or search engines robots did so), I do not know. But
apparently it happens, and apparently it happens quite a bit.
So here's the deal—if you read this
regularly, or have even just stumbled on it by accident, and you're
from a country outside of the U.S., please let me know. My e-mail
address is always at the end of each post, and don't worry—I won't
mention you in any way. I know almost everyone who reads this does
so as a “lurker”, and I'm cool with that. I don't want to
“unlurk” you. But I'm curious, so let me know, and we'll see how
many people in how many different countries read this.
Who knows...I may then have to start
wishing people happy holidays OTHER that Bastille Day. And that
would be one of the coolest things that I could do.
On that note, have yourself a great
weekend, whether you celebrated Bastille Day or not!
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