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Thanks to the late great Tina Downey at Life is Good and Shannon Lawrence at The Warrior Muse who started the Road Trip (formerly known as the Post-Challenge Challenge) -- by calling on each other to visit all of the blogs on the list before the next A-Z Challenge rolled around -- we now have this year-round event to stay active in the blogosphere during the "off-season."
I've had the pleasure of
co-hosting this with the founding ladies and then continued with Tina after
Shannon hitched a ride at a rest stop to embark on other adventures. Soon,
Heather Gardner at The Waiting is the Hardest Part joined us as a travel guide
and brought Stormy the Weather Gnome along to swap shifts taking the wheel on
this open road of A-Z blogs. After racking up lots of mileage out here in
blogland, Heather and Stormy parked their car in the garage for a tuneup
earlier this year. Luckily, I gained another driving partner in C. Lee McKenzie
at The Write Game who will be helping with refreshments, maps and other
necessities to keep everyone's engine running and going in the right direction
(i.e. forward) on the highway.
Starting today, C. Lee McKenzie
and I invite you to join us on the 5th annual Post-Challenge Road Trip, a
meandering journey through the 2015 list of A-Z participants, at your own pace, with
your own rules, and very few expectations.
The most important thing to keep
in mind is you're the boss of you're own schedule and approach to visiting
blogs. Whether you want to visit one new blog on a daily basis or hundreds of
blogs per day, you're the one at the wheel. The Road Trip is really just some
buddies in the blogging community hanging out and visiting new voices in the
A-Z world.
A few strateties that may
have worked for Road Trippers include...
- Visiting all the blogs with similar topics or categories as yours
- Visiting all the blogs whose names make you curious
- Visiting all the blogs at even (or odd) numbers on the list
- Start from where you left off and keep on truckin'...
- Visiting blogs that are low (or high, or in the middle) on the list
- Visiting blogs randomly by just clicking on titles located in different areas of the list
Whatever you do, remember that signing up on the linky doesn't mean you're
committed to visiting ALL of the blogs on the list. Coming along with us on
this Road Trip just indicates that you're not done yet and would like to show
your fellow A-Z participants some visiting and commenting love. These are among
the things that keep a blogging community strong.
Who's with us for the 2015 Post-Challenge
Road Trip?
~ Nicole @ The Madlab Post
SIGNUP to Be Our (A to Z) Post-Challenge Road Trip Traveling Companions HERE:
Ready for the journey!
ReplyDeleteI always meet so many wonderful people and find so many wonderful blogs! I may clone myself so i can read more.
ReplyDeleteMarian Allen, Author Lady
Fantasies, mysteries, comedies, recipes
I just signed up. And I'll be cruising at a leisurely pace.
ReplyDeleteSigned up; first time doing the road trip so looking forward to taking my time as I travel through the list :)
ReplyDeletebetty
Nice to know there's time to visit more over the coming months. Thanks for doing this!
ReplyDeleteAwesome! I didn't get to visit as many blogs as I would have liked during the Challenge, so looking forward to doing this!
ReplyDeleteThere's are so many I want to visit. Road trip, here we come.
ReplyDeleteYay!! Loved the Road Trip last year so revving my motor and all ready to journey to those blogs I didn't make it too this April :) Special Teaching at Pempi’s Palace
ReplyDeleteI'm going to attempt it this year. I tried it a couple years back and then completely forgot about it. This time it's going in my toolbar where I will see it daily.
ReplyDeleteThis year, I'm going to visit more blogs than last year.
ReplyDeleteLetters from the Land of Cherry Blossoms
Hello there.
ReplyDeleteSeems I have a problem...I can't stay away from anything AtoZ so in spite of my reservations, I just joined the Road Trip...see you along the way!
Entrepreneurial Goddess
Had to buy some petrol, check the oil and clean the windshield, but I did that, and now I'm ready to roll. I'm looking for dashboard buddy at the moment. I'll let you know if I find one. Yay! And off we go.
ReplyDeleteLooks like we'll have plenty of fellow travelers on this A to Z journey!
ReplyDeleteArlee Bird
A to Z Challenge Co-host
Tossing It Out
I've done a few real life epic road trips, but none quite like this! Wagons ho!
ReplyDeleteBrandy from Brandy's Bustlings
Gotta get a tune up, oil change and check under the hood, and then I'm hitting the road!
ReplyDeleteLife & Faith in Caneyhead
All set to take up this road trip! :)
ReplyDeletehttps://happinessandfood.wordpress.com/
Joys of a full time job! Love the road trip! Looking forward to reading some more blogs :)
ReplyDeleteOopsie! Can you edit my link (#70 Curious as a Cathy)? I forgot to include (MU) after my blog name. *smack forehead* Yeah, I'm crazy sometimes...correction, I'm crazy all the time. *sigh* Oh well, here I am traveling the not-so-lonesome highway with a few others on the post challenge A2Z Road Trip crossing my fingers that I don't run out of gas before I have the chance to visit everyone on the list at least once. Thanks to y'all for every single thing that you do to make our blog lives a little richer! ;)
ReplyDeleteMe, too, starting next week when I get back from a working holiday. Can't wait to visit!
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to starting this. Think it will be tomorrow :)
ReplyDeleteDebbie
www.myrandommusings.blogpsot.com
I love road trips! I'm excited to get to know some more bloggers along the way :)
ReplyDeleteElizabeth @ Liz's Random Ponderings
I know you guys will have the best time!
ReplyDeleteStormy and I loved the road and we will get back on it soon after a break!
C.Lee and Nicole! Have a blast!
Heather
So I'm curious...I added my blog to the list, so am I to go through the alphabet naming things I like with each letter the way you all did in April, or do I just read/write as normal? I really could use some motivation to write and meet other people! I'm at http://theprozacqueen.wordpress.com.
ReplyDeleteProzac, you can certainly use the alphabet prompts on your posts, but the Road Trip is not about posting, it's about visiting. The Road Trip is essentially an extension of April from the networking standpoint. Now at your leisure you can visit all or as many blogs on the original A to Z sign up list as you'd like. Let them know you're on the Road Trip in order to provide them with a connection. You can visit their current posts or you can go back to visit all or some of their A to Z posts. No rules really. You just travel at your own pace and go where you want to go. The A to Z identity is for the purposely of establishing greater feelings of community.
DeleteHave fun with it!
Arlee Bird
A to Z Challenge Co-host
Road trippin' with A to Z
Tossing It Out
Hi Nicole and Lee - enjoy the annual tour around .. great friends out there and I'm sure new bloggers you will find .. enjoy - I shall be waiting in the laybye ... and watching you all go by .. and enjoying a snack with Lee at one of your break off points .. cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteJust joined the journey, hope to see many on the way.
ReplyDeleteYvonne.
I almost forgot about signing up this year, luckily Pempi at Pempi's Palace reminded me. I'm on the list but computer problems slowed me down during the challenge so I'm behind on the Reflections list. Once I've made it through that list I'll make a start on this one. ;-)
ReplyDeleteCait @ Click's Clan
awesome.
ReplyDeleteMary Burris visited my blog as part of the Road Trip, which reminded me to sign-up for this. It will be nice to visit ALL of the blogs throughout 2015 and part of 2016. It's impossible for me to do it during the actual A to Z.
ReplyDeletePrecious Monsters
Jolie, thanks for supporting A to Z and joining in our yearly post-Challenge blog tour. Not many of us can hit all of the participating blogs during the month of April, but over the course of the year we can relax and enjoy the scenery.
DeleteHappy blog exploring!
Arlee Bird
A to Z Challenge Co-host
Road trippin' with A to Z
Tossing It Out
Hello!
ReplyDeleteA post is now live on our blog :-)
http://bookschatter.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/bh-post-az-roadtrip2015.html
Phew, just completed the Road Trip. Everyone linked up should now have at least one comment off me! If you don't please let me know in case I accidentally missed someone out!
ReplyDeleteDebbie
www.myrandommusings.blogspot.com
Yeah, so now you have to go finish the entire big A to Z list! That's the real Road Trip.
DeleteGood job getting through the list here.
Arlee Bird
A to Z Challenge Co-host
Road trippin' with A to Z
Tossing It Out
Oh, Ok, I'll get onto that - good job there's almost a year to complete it! :)
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