Recap of 2017!

Around this time last year, I took the plunge and launched my SamiM Adventures travel blog. It has always been a dream of mine to run a travel blog but for some reason, I had hemmed-and-hawed about it for so many years. On a whim, I sat down and purchased the domain. Within a week, I had this site up and running. Once I have my mind set on something, I stayed up ALL the hours and worked on it to make it perfect! A year has passed by and oh, what an adventure it has been (see what I did there). This year I have traveled more and written more than I have ever before. Are y’all tired of hearing me blab?

From Savannah, Georgia to California, all the way to Europe, 2017 has been a good year.

In 2017,

• I walked through the art-covered neighborhood of Cabbagetown in ATL.
• I rode a horse on the beach of Jekyll Island.
• I walked amongst 20 million daffodils in Gibb’s Gardens, Georgia.
• I went to the only tea plantation in America and tasted different types.
• I stumbled upon a field of poppies and did not fall asleep like Dorothy.
• I climbed through old town Dubrovnik.
• I witnessed the breathtaking waterfall of Kravice Falls in Bosnia.
• I drove all over my favorite country of Montenegro.
• I roamed an abandoned castle in Albania.
• I visited the blue domes of Santorini.
• I tore my ACL completely on a plane between Greece and Switzerland.
• I was stranded at the Zurich hotel for 24 hours crying my eyes out like the big baby I am.
• I ordered my first room service meal.
• I hiked in the Georgia mountains.
• I walked through a field of sunflowers.
• I picked apples right off the tree in North Georgia.
• I glamped in an airstream in SoCal.
• I walked amongst the many colors of Salvation Mountain.
• I visited the desert exhibition of Seven Magic Mountains.
• I touched the canyon walls of Antelope Canyon.
• I saw the curve of Horseshoe Bend.
• I stood next to a insanely tall 17 feet tall saguaro cactus.
• I walked in 13 inches of snow.

 

Blog Stats!

1. 57 travel journal entries
2. 3380 visits to my website/ Average of 282 a month
3. Social Media
   • Facebook
     • from 0 to 183 likes
   • Instagram
     • from 0 to 730 followers

 

In 2018,

• I want to find a way to connect with more fellow travelers and form a community.
• Learn more SEO in order to make my journal entries more visible to those who seek the same adventures.
• Check off some bucket list destinations such as Amsterdam and Lauterbrunnen.
• Reconquer Switzerland because my last trip was not how I want to remember that beautiful country.
• Return to Colorado and get a mountain lodge experience.

 

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Where would you like to see SamiM Adventures go this year?

 

xx,
Sami