On Goodbye's and Hello's

A few days ago Vancouver bade farewell to one of it's many sons. My good friend Hythe, who boarded a plane out of YVR - one my favourite places in the world - and set off to Taiwan earlier this week.  He's headed to Thailand next, and magically appearing in Europe some months later. I don't know how it all works. I'm assuming it has something to do with interdimensional rifts or some such thing.

If our collective confusion over an X is any indication, it may take a while to figure out Hythe's travel plans. (Photo credit to Jonny Picture)

I'll let Hythe tell you himself. You see, he's going to be blogging with me here at 3B, over at his own travel blog, which can be found here: http://booksbeersandbeards.com/weltenbummeln

You might be looking at that url and thinking, what the hell is Weltenbemmeln? If you are, well, that's probably because you don't understand German. Weltenbummeln is, well, I'll let Hythe explain it, it's his blog after all.  Thankfully, Google Translate's got your back if you're in any kind of urgency.

At the time of writing this, there's no posts or content there yet. It's coming. Hythe is halfway around the world after all, and it's 2am there right now. Plus he kind of needs wifi to post, which he may not always have access to. 

Give him a warm hello when he shows up 'round here. Because me and a few dozen other folks already gave him one hell of a goodbye.

On Blogging

Why do I want to write a blog? 

This is a question I've been asking myself recently, as I started seriously considering starting this project. And I've come to the following conclusion:

I'm writing this blog as a means to try and organize my mind, to put thoughts and ideas into coherent form, and to keep them all together in one centralized space, rather than scattered to the winds of the internet across innumerous other websites.

I've always enjoyed writing, and the written word in general. If you've ever seen one of my short essays on Facebook, you'll likely understand. And so writing a blog seemed like a natural progression.

I have a deep affinity for books, and perhaps indulge in my love of collecting them a little bit too vigorously at times, as my wife (and credit card statements) will likely attest. I often find myself desperate to discuss a book, and so starting a book review blog seemed a good place to start.  

I also bear a deep, unquenchable love of good craft beer. As I noted in the post in the beer review blog, I was starting to feel limited by the usual avenue I take for reviewing beer, and so moving onto bigger things seemed almost a necessity. 

Two of the three blogs here (the Book and Beer blogs) will be much more focused, as their primary subjects are found within their names readily enough. But the third blog, this blog, so aptly named, won't have such a focus. There's going to be lot of daydreaming and navel gazing going on here, as well as recollections, ruminations and rants. 

Hopefully you'll find something here worth reading, and I'll have made something worth everyone's time.

- Ryan