I recently had the honor of recording my 6th episode of the Amateur Traveler Podcast, this time on Amsterdam, with my friend and industry giant Chris Christensen. For those who don’t want to download it on itunes, here’s an embedded player for the current episode. Amateur Traveler Episode 375 – Travel to Amsterdam in the […]

One of the first things I do when I end a long trip like this one is try to put together some sort of post on my feelings on the trip while those feelings are still fresh in my head. Here’s the thing, though, after being on the road this long, and especially at the […]

It’s been too long since I updated my blog, but I have been doing an excellent job of updating my personal and blog Facebook pages, Twitter, Instagram (esmith7273) and Untappd. I’m going to pick up here were I left off in the last post, which was after my first two days in Iceland. The second two days in Iceland […]

I recently announced in a post yesterday (Goodbye Blogger, Hello WordPress (or The Fear of Change) ) that I am making the switch from Google’s Blogger to a self-hosted wordpress site (if you didn’t get that from the title…). While I don’t want to rehash that post, I will say the continued success of the blog […]

All great changes are preceded by chaos. -Deepak Chopra To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. -Henri Bergson 22 months ago, I started this blog on a whim. I knew very little about the writing of a blog. (Some would say I still […]

September was a big month here at On My Feet or In My Mind. I blew past last month, my previous high month for total pages views. August saw 5,207 views and September jumped to 6,529 views, a 20% increase. The best part about the jump is that the numbers were pretty consistent from day-to-day, not inflated […]

This weekend, my friend Chris Christensen of the Amateur Traveler, posted the podcast we recently did on New Zealand’s South Island. This was my fifth visit to Chris’ show, and it’s an honor to be tied for the most amount of shows. Here’s a link to the current podcast. Here are links to the other […]

August was a great month for On My Feet or In My Mind, with a record number of views (5,207) and comments (67). I still am not back to posting as much content as I should, I’m averaging 1.5 new posts and 2 photo essays a week, where I’d love to be averaging 3 posts […]

Today’s my 40th Birthday. I know it’s just a random number and I don’t really feel old. Following the lead of one of the most glamourous bloggers out there (and one of my favorites), Andi of My Beautiful Adventures, who turned 30 last week and posted 30 yearly images of herself, I searched my archives […]

In last month’s State of the Blog Post, I talked about how great a month I’d had in May (first month with over 5,000 views) and how due to an extreme drop off in new content, my June number had fallen off greatly (back under 4,000 views). This month, thanks to the performance of my […]