The Million Dollar Question

First of all, I have to ask myself: 'Why am I doing a shitty little travel blog?'

I must admit, I could probably count the number of blogs I have read with the fingers on my right hand. I've had no interest in reading, writing, commenting, criticising, praising, defacing, or rating blogs. To me, they've always felt like long lists of trivial and self-indulgent insights into people's duller-than-watching-a-puddle-evaporate lives. With a few exceptions (most notably UltraCulture - a very good film blog), many blogs have failed to make me read past the first page.

With such an indifferent attitude towards this 'Internet Phenomenon', why have I suddenly decided to jump onto this very old and dilapidated bandwagon? Whatever reasons I have, they are completely selfish. I don't really care what people find 'interesting' or 'exciting'. I am doing this purely for me. It's a chance for me to record and recount a very new experience in my life; my Big Canadian Adventure (or BCA if we wanna start an acronym early). For those of you who don't know, I will be living and working in the Canadian Rockies for 8 months in a small town called Banff (it's a bit near Vancouver). Considering most of the things we do are now technologically recorded in some public forum anyway - be it facebook, twitter, texting etc. - I might as well spill every last embarrassing detail of my waking life into this diary-esque format.

I will try and avoid the most common cliché of the travel blog: boasting. As soon as a blog sounds like it's just listing all the great things they are doing, and probably you'll never do, I switch off. I have no time for badly written accounts of crazy late night parties on a beach, or scuba diving next to a basking shark; because at the end of the day, they all sound the same. If you copy and paste most people's travels to South East Asia on top of one another, 97% of the trip will overlap. As hackneyed as it sounds, the only way to understand what they're jabbering on about is to do it yourself.

So for those of you who are interested in my trip (I salute you for getting this far), I will do my best to make this blog as informative and enjoyable as conceivably possible. And most importantly, it will be honest.

To (rather unnecessarily) sound like a 1950s Greaser - sugar coating just ain't my style, baby.