Yay! This is the first post of my blog Any Whimsy. I transferred the title from my website, figuring that it was about time that I stopped using it on my own personal address, which has become an online portfolio of sorts. It didn't feel like that needed a name like Any Whimsy anymore.
I've been wanting to start a blog about travelling, but since I also love to read and write, I wanted a place where I could sort of combine those two passions. So this journal will be for writing about my travel adventures - past stories, as well as travel tips like comparing transportation methods and more technical stuff - and also for reviewing novels I read. However, when I do discuss novels that I'm reading, I will try to focus more on the travel aspects to them.
As a fantasy reader, I have always been fascinated by the wide scope these epic novels tend to have. In Lord of the Rings, for example, we see the heroes journey from the pleasant, rolling hills of the Shire; over the terrible snowy peaks of the Misty Mountains and then when that failed, beneath them through the fiery forge of Moria; across the vast plains of Rohan; through the bewitching forest of Lothlórien; and finally to the terrible black, rocky crags of Mordor. Any epic tale is also a travel tale. And so I will seek to explore how travel comes to play a part in some of my favorite texts.
Fantasy stories have always been a truly enveloping means of escape for me as well. When a person gets so involved in a novel, it can sometimes make real life seem boring. Travel is one of my main methods of curing this boredom that over takes me, and I feel that the youth lazying around their houses whining that nothing good is on TV can taste at least a little bit of adventure by just going out and exploring even their own town. Thus, from my European travels to my weekend day trips, I will try to cover it all and find the adventure in life. (I know this is starting to sound corny so I'll be done soon).
The purpose, therefore, of this blog is really finding adventure. "Any Whimsy" was chosen because for me, it implies a sense of adventure and of the unknown, of embarking out without necessarily knowing what adventures will be had, just that adventures will be had. We seek adventure - or at least a good story.
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