A year of blogging...

It's been a little over a year since we posted our first entry on "....with the sea as our living room.... And this will be our 206 post. Bill and I have written about our adventures, the people we have met, the places we have visited, living on board, the sites we have explored. And of course we have posted hundreds of pictures!

We got the idea from Cindy who kept a blog chronicling the Caribbean 1500. Paula, a friend I worked with at the State Department, came up with the name ....with the sea as our living room. Our intentions in creating the blog were two-fold. First, we wanted to keep a record of our travels for ourselves. More importantly, however, we found that it is an easy way to keep in touch. Instead of sending email updates we write one post and whoever is interested in keeping up with our travels can simply visit our blog. This was particularly helpful when we were in the Caribbean last year.

We do receive the occasional comment (which we love). And we have received several emails (to our google account) from people we have never met commenting or asking questions about living aboard, etc. Cool.

I discovered Google Analytics in May, 2008, which has allowed us to keep stats on how many people are visiting our site, what city they are from, and how they find us (by typing in the link, doing a google search, referring link from another site, etc.). Since May there have been 6,767 page hits on our blog. 4,430 people have visited from 525 different cities in 60 different countries including Italy, China, Latvia, and Uruguay. The most hits we ever had in one day was 45 on December 20, 2008.

So thanks for reading. We have enjoyed looking back on the past year and remembering all of our adventures. And we hope you have too.