Thanks for dropping in. Please check out my new website, The Internet is a place of perpetual beginnings. New posts, new sites, new apps… Seldom, it seems, does anything ever come to an end. That’s unfortunate because energy – not in an electrical sense, but the fresh ideas that fuel floating light bulbs – comes as a result of change, and change is nothing if not a series of beginnings and endings.
Since Go Too Far East began back in 2006, my whimsically named, would-be travel blog has evolved into many roles, from “the digital diary of a backpacker with a blog” to a column on communication, a portfolio of freelance articles and even an online platform to syndicate my book, The Future History of Travel.
Along the way, I’ve changed too. Perhaps one reason is that old adage among old China hands, that if you visit China for a week you can write a book on China; if you visit China for a month you can write a magazine article on China; and if you visit China for a year you can barely write a word. Whatever the reason, I’m now writing less about going too far east and focusing more on fiction, like my new book.
That’s why, with this post, Go Too Far East is coming to an end. But I have started a new website: Timbucktoo.net.
Like Go Too Far East, Timbucktoo.net also refers to a far away place. Timbuktu, the fabled city of Arabian myth, is actually a real place in modern day Mali, but it has assumed legendary status in the English lexicon as an expression for any inaccessible, mysterious or exotic destination.
As I have done on Go Too Far East, I will continue using Timbucktoo.net whenever I go too far with a rant that’s not fit to be published anywhere but my own platform. But Timbucktoo.net is not just a blog; it is primarily an online outpost for the occasional freelance article and, most importantly, future fiction projects. In theory, the main difference is that, as a website rather than a blog, Timbucktoo.net will be updated less frequently but contain high quality content (though in practice I have not been frequently updating Go Too Far East lately anyway, which is part of the reason behind this change).
Thank you to everyone who has checked out Go Too Far East over the years and enriched the content with your comments. Look for more from me at Timbucktoo.net.
