Part of the fun of doing this website/blog is knowing that people actually visit it and read some of the contents and look at the photos I have posted. The hosting site I use for the site can capture the I P addresses of those who access the site. Although I can't discover the actual identities of those who visit, I can usually identify the cities and countries where they are when they are visiting the web site. I haven't kept complete track of all of the visits, but, over the past 3 months there have been visitors from: Guangzhow, China; Stockholm, Sweden; Toronto, Canada; Lodz, Poland; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Lahore, Pakistan; Moscow, Russia; England; Roubaix, France; Germany; Japan; Australia and Beijing, China. A number of these involved multiple visits by different people in the same country. Visitors from the US were from Seattle, Denver, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Antonio. Peoria, Redmond (WA), California City (NJ), Shalimar (FL), Atlanta, Gainesville (FL), Hartford (CT), Mountain View (CA), Ann Arbor (MI), St. Louis, Greenville (NC), Virginia, Bethesda (MD), Carbondale (IL) and Orlando. Many of these were people who made multiple visits to the site.
I have surprised and gratified that people have found the web site worth visiting--and returning to. I try to keep it interesting. Although it is possible to leave comments in the blog section, people rarely do so. I wish I know what they were thinking after having visited the site. I welcome comments about anything in the blog or any other part of the site. I just want to say thanks to those who have visited and hope they feel free to refer others to the site. In one case, it seems that a number of people from Stockholm referred one another to one of my poems; A Journey That Neither of Us Could Have Made Alone. I wish they would have added comments about it on the site.
I hope you have reasons to continue coming back.
My friend's father, Richard, with an elderly woman in a village in China.