A Place to Document Adventures

The original 'iBanjo' blog was one which I maintained by hand on our community 'red-bean.com' server.  Alas, I no longer have the patience (or time!) to manually upgrade / maintain / de-spam / secure a homegrown Wordpress site.

It's funny -- all I wanted to do was have a place to share my photos from my different trips and vacations -- but in narrative, photojournalistic way.  But the solution was elusive at first.  Social media just isn't conducive for this:  it's all about short-form, short-attention-span sharing of the exact moment.  Things like Twitter and Instagram are lousy for storytelling.

• Likewise:  a Google Photos album is nice, but there's no way to turn it into a narrative.  (adding captions to photos isn't enough, IMO).
• ...and a Facebook photo album is nice, but then only a subset of friends and family can see it.

And so somebody reminded me that Blogger still existed (what!??), and so I logged in and lo and behold, there were a couple of my blogs from 2007 (!).  It's easy to use, integrates seamlessly with the photos I share into Google Photos, and requires basically zero maintenance from me.

Blogger it is, then. 

There are still a bunch of old stories sitting at the old iBanjo site, all from 2006 to 2014.  Perhaps at some point I'll try to 'migrate' them over to this blog, so they're still available for historical reference.