I got a lot of blog posts from my trip to Arizona Bike Week.
I was just scrolling down the home page for this blog to get to the Login link and noticed that I launched this blog in April of 2006. It has been 20 years that I’ve been doing this. Wow.
I didn’t do it regularly back then. Looking at that first month I published on April 8, 11, 12, 13, 18, and 25. Then I read that to be well regarded you needed to publish regularly and the best was three times a week. So I did that for a while but I was also posting then to Examiner.com at least three times a week as well as twice a week to RumBum.com. It was a bit much and I cut back to twice a week and that is what I have done ever since, posting on Monday and Thursday.
You might wonder how many posts that comes out to. I have the answer. This post will be number 1,973. Which means I will soon be celebrating number 2,000. In about 14 weeks to be exact. Of course, that is not as exact as it seems. There have been just a very few posts I have removed for whatever reason. But that’s close enough.
People ask me “How in the world do you keep coming up with ideas of things to write about?” Sometimes it’s really easy and sometimes it’s not. Sometimes I really scrape to find something. My wife has suggested at times that I just skip it and she thinks it’s a little silly that I take posting twice a week, every single week, so seriously. And yeah, I have missed a few. Like when I got hit head-on on my Honda CB750 Custom last year. I was still in the emergency room on Monday.
Most of the time, though, blog topics come easily. I go for a ride and I constantly observe. Many, many times I make an observation that ends up being a post, in addition to a post about the ride itself. When I go on long rides, multi-day rides, I get so many blog post ideas I have to write them down at my first opportunity to keep from forgetting them. And then there are the times, especially in winter, when I fall back on a few standards, such as the thread on Adventure Rider that asks what crazy things you have hit or almost hit while riding.
So what was the first post about back on April 8, 2006? The title was “Passes and Canyons Enters the Blogosphere” and it was pretty much an introduction. I had launched the main website in November 2005 and it had been well received so I was expanding the reach. And I ended it saying, “Thanks for visiting. Come again. Tell your friends. And ride, ride, ride.” That’s just as good an ending now as it was back then. So hey, thanks for visiting. Come again. Tell your friends. And ride, ride, ride.
Biker Quote for Today
I have rarely taken a direct path or a shortcut. Instead, I methodically wander. I explore with enthusiasm. — Eric Trow
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