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    31 Posts in 31 Days - My Personal May Challenge

    Published: May 4, 2014 · Modified: Oct 27, 2014 by Jennifer Che

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    Uluru - in the Outback in Australia

    The other day I was looking through my old blog posts. I was shocked that I had reached over 1000 posts on this blog (can you believe it???!!) and was looking back through the years. One thing that sort of blew me away was how often I blogged in 2010 (255 posts that year!). It was a crazy year that culminated in the epic blog posts that I wrote while competing for Project Food Blog (which I eventually won).

    The month of February particularly caught my eye.

    28 posts in 28 days.

    Really??!!

    How in the world did I do that? I can hardly get out three posts a week now. I can't imagine 7 posts a week.
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    Shining Sea Bike Trail, Cape Cod (Falmouth to Woods Hole)

    And then I thought, "why don't I try?"

    I know. It's a bit crazy, and it's been years since I've written at that intensity.

    But I like a good challenge. Plus, there's SO MUCH content that I've been wanting to share on the blog, but I just keep falling behind.
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    Like our weekend trip to Cape Cod last summer, where we biked a ton of gorgeous trails, enjoyed some of freshest and best seafood I've ever tasted, and soaked in the peaceful scenery.
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    Or my trip to Atlanta, Georgia, where I visited one of the most famous southern restaurants and had the best shrimp & grits in my life.
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    And then there are my multiple trips to Montreal (my work has an office there), which I've covered somewhat on the blog, but nowhere close to completion. 
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    Speaking of Canada, there's also the boat trip we took from Vancouver (beautiful city!) to Victoria through the islands . . .
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     . . . where we saw the most impressive botanical garden I've ever seen in my life.
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    And finally, I still can't believe I haven't written a single post about our three week trip to Australia and New Zealand with Bryan's parents to celebrate their retirement.
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    The Outback had such unusual landscape, and it's there that we tried some more exotic game meats, such as kangaroo, emu, and bison.
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    And New Zealand is most certainly one of the most beautiful countries I have ever visited.
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    Milford Sound, New Zealand

    I've resolved to try this challenge.

    31 posts in 31 days.

    I can't guarantee that I'll be able to regularly write a new post every day, but my goal is to have 31 posts by the end of May, even if it means I publish two posts on certain days (if I skip one, ha ha).
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    New Zealand

    I'm hoping I can take the opportunity to "catch up" a bit on my growing backlog of posts I want to write. It may mean writing in a slightly different way - perhaps writing shorter posts, more compilations (versus individual posts for each restaurant / site), or whatnot.
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    Milford Trek, New Zealand

    Whatever turns out, I see this as an interesting experiment as well as a chance to motivate myself to go above and beyond what I normally do for this blog. I tend to be goal-driven anyway (competing in Project Food Blog most definitely showed me how intensely crazy I can get when there's a goal in sight), so I'm hoping this internal goal will help me to explore new ways to write, be more creative about the content I post, and most importantly, to HAVE FUN.

    I hope you enjoy this next month!

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