I just have to throw this out there into the blogosphere:
I know I’ve been remiss about posting for the last six months (during which time I moved to New York from Paris and have slowly managed to build a life for myself), but you’re going to have to forgive me. The travel site I write for here in New York, jauntsetter, has just made me Jauntsetter of the Week!
A huge welcome to all my new readers! Most of my writing hasn’t been up here lately, sadly. I write for jauntsetter nearly daily, and I’m working on a book at the moment about my travels last year (though I suggest checking through this blog’s archives for some sneak peeks, particularly the motorbike story), but I’m going to start posting regularly about my New York life, so check back often! I’m still a California girl at heart, with an insatiable wanderlust, so living in New York is its own adventure.
Stay tuned!
Kate Thorman 
Your writings are quite addictive to say the least//No wonder at all to see you as Jauntsetter of the month/week,but Kate, next time you go on a jaunt/or if U don’t//don’ leave me in the cold,any which way,and that includes THE FAMOUS DATES. And by the way,what d’you mean by ‘real person’,U sure are the Waka Waka
person that side of Suez.I visited China too,but don’t have the skills to chronicle or lose cameras.Well,You are a lovable genius,globe trotting or otherwise.