Round We Go

About three weeks ago my married friends Ryan and Laura left America for a one-year trip around the world. Their jobs are quit, stuff sold or in storage, money saved and they're off. I think it's totally awesome and ballsey as hell. They've got a long travel history already so I'd guess they know what they're getting into. A year of travel is not a vacation, it's a lifestyle. Over the next year, and in the following order, they'll be hitting cities in South America, South Pacific, SE Asia, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe, Europe, Africa and South America again, arriving back in the Chicago (I assume) in November 2010. Details here. Here's a quick video of the route.

They've got the requisite Facebook at Twitter profiles, as well as a blog that I think is really well put together and extremely well written. Plenty of pictures too. Everyone should give it a good look, whether you know Ryan and Laura, respect the traveler's ways or just appreciate a good blog.

Roundwego.com

ToneMatrix

This rules.  Requires sound and might be better with weed.

Thanks Brendan.

Awkward Family Photos

Kate tipped me off to this blog and it must be shared immediately with you all.
Awkward Family Photos
Nice find.

"Quotes" and "Pets"

Kate told me about a photo-blog called Pets Who Want To Kill Themselves. I'd say these two photos sum the general content. Pretty hilarious.





Steve turned me on to The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks. The title is fairly explanatory.




Enjoy.

Cool Tumblr

I was just perusing the Tumblr Award winners page and I feel compelled to share one of them with my wee readership. For anyone who may not know, Tumblr is simply another blogging service (I use Blogger, Wordpress is another popular one) and it's pretty great for quick posts, pictures and songs.

The Best Audio Posts winner goes to a site called Songs You Used To Love. It lists one song each day. Each song was at one time, and possibly remains, extremely popular. There's certainly plenty of tunes to skip, but for the occasional memory jogging tune like this (Micah and I riding trains though Europe in 2002(?)!) it's totally worth your attention. I'm excited to see this in my Google Reader every day from now on.

As for other topics, this page is the winner of the Best Use Of Reblogging category. Lots of assorted cool stuff going on there.