Introducing "Pathless Travels"

Hello world. I'm Jun Verzola, a Filipino based in the Philippines. I have a website, www.iraia.net, but the tedium discourages me from updating that site often. So now I'm trying my hand at blogging. A bit like creating an e-group, and hoping that "if I build it, they will come." I also write a regular column, named "Pathless Travels", for Northern Dispatch, a regional weekly newspaper in Northern Luzon. (Actually, I was a former editor of the paper.)

I had wanted to name this blog "Iraia" to be consistent with my other website. (What "iraia" means, I'll explain later.) But the name was already taken. Next I thought of Pinoy Almanak. A good name, actually, and also reflected a project I had long wanted to pursue. But I backtracked, not wanting to raise expectations too much about this blog. So finally I settled with the name of my column, Pathless Travels.

This blog, hopefully, will contain not merely my column pieces, some of which also appear at the Nordis website, but the many posts I write for certain e-groups, including the topics I was hoping to pursue in the Iraia website.

Blogging is good for humankind.