almost every continent

I haven't been to that many continents. I was born and raised in New York. I've been to a few countries in Europe. That is it. I am not complaining. I am lucky to have traveled at all. My dream is to visit most, if not all, continents before I die and am reincarnated into a beautiful and graceful pegasus, able to soar among the stars and than gallop into the sunset when I land in a peaceful meadow (should there be any left; realistically speaking).

So, maybe this is the reason I am so obsessed with seeing where the people that read my blog live. I check almost every day and I have had someone from six of the seven continents read my blog at some point or another. I'm just missing Antarctica... so you scientists out in the freezing land of Antarctica, I'm calling for YOU! so, the fact remains, I get really excited that I seem to have a few faithful readers in Russia, Germany, and sometimes, France and Australia. I don't have that huge of a following and I don't need one. I just love seeing readers from interesting countries pop up. I would love to hear their stories. Like the person Ukraine, Bulgaria, or Latvia! I want to know what life is like in these countries, why they read my blog and what their daily lives are like. What other blogs do they read? How did they find mine?

I started out writing this blog as a way for me to simply write more. I do a lot of journal-writing but it is so different. That is way more private and based on feelings rather than opinions and observations and experiences. I never in a million years thought that anyone besides my good friends on Facebook (which is where I post my blog) would read, so when I started noticing all the countries that I don't know people in represented in my statistics, it made me wonder: how?

So, if anyone from anywhere other than the US (or in the US, hell, I'm an equal-opportunity-writer) wants to follow my blog and comment to tell me about themselves, I think that would be so amazing! Don't be shy- I'm not! I know that before I lived in New York City, I was completely fascinated by it. People are fascinated by things they've never experienced. I'm fascinated by daily life in Latvia and would love to learn more about it and I promise to share more about life in New York City.