Cate Huston's "How I Learned to Love Traveling Solo"

(A note on this blog posting. I learned that if you have one one these blogs in editing mode on two computers that is a bad thing as I lost what I had posted earlier to an older posting on my home PC :-(  This is a lesson I did not desire to learn.  The new posting is not anything like the original)

My thoughts on the way in which this blog relates to the first unit as both a blog and as a ed. narrative.  This blog is enjoyable to read as a blog.  The blog is light hearted providing an enjoyable experience to the reader as well as providing some basic information about Cate Huston's personality and on her traveling experiences.

In Cate's blog she starts off by describing herself to the reader, she calls herself an ambivert (something that I had never heard of before). Cate then tells the readers of the concerns she has about traveling, going through her steps to safe and comfortable traveling. Cate then tells us the best time to travel to avoid crowds. Cate's next step is to talk us about creating memories.  This process is interesting as she tells us first off how not to think of the trip as a one time trip, this would create anxiety which would not be a good memory.  Cate then tells us about taking pictures and emailing them immediately, or tweeting her experience thereby getting interaction with the people she associates with making them a part of her travels.  Cate talks of buying clothes or jewelry that she will have a travel story to talk about when people comment about them.  Cate tells us how to pack and what to take as these are adventure trips and the people she sees while traveling will not see her again.  Cate says not to stick to a defined plan, as she has built good memories doing things that were spur of the moment.  Cate concludes by telling us to manage and reduce stress to get the most out of traveling.

I enjoyed reading Cate's blog.