Rec your blog (host and your own blog!)

[umdsmlee]

My blog is chickwithchopsticks.com; I created it originally through blogger but I know nothing about html so I"m having a blog 'facelift' courtesy of www.craftyhippodesigns.com/ - should be up and running by the end of May. I often check out these blogs:
www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Yunnan/Dali/blog-711520.html
ttp://www.surroundedbythesound.com/?cat=49
aroundtheworldwithrebecca.blogspot.com.au/search/label/HCM%20City
www.katieinprague.com/search/label/Vietnam

Some of those I found on the nest, some I found through lonely planet. Hope that helps!

[victoria1212]

I like Wordpress. There are some templates that would be great to highlight travel. My blog is under my picture but it is family stuff with travel thrown in :-)

[librarygirl]

My blog is primarily travel related but also with some ethnic cooking posts thrown in.

www.theredheadedtraveler.com

(I use blogger and am satisfied with it for the most part.)

[mdgirl]

I use Wordpress. I have some basic HTML knowledge and while it does some quirky stuff once in a while it generally works well for me.

[travelingjen]

I too use Blogger but in hindsight wish I would have used Wordpress.

My original travel blog was done on travelblog.org but I switched to Blogger as I didn't like the formatting.

[summerkutie]

I use Blogger, and am upset that they recently redid everything. It takes me forever to get comfortable with a website, and they always change it and I have to try and figure everything out all over again.

[emilyinchile]

Blogger is easier if you don't want much personalization and are happy to work within its themes. Wordpress is a bit less user-friendly but makes upgrading to an eventual self-hosted blog with infinite personalization easier. I started with Blogger and paid someone to switch me over to a Wordpress self-hosted blog because I could never have done it myself. It depends how "serious" you'd like to be (in quotes because I think you can take a hobby seriously without having it self-hosted or trying to get a huge audience, but hopefully you know what I mean).

It's www.emilyinchile.com - travel and expat life in Chile

[Lisa7]

I use blogger but I'm still figuring it out.
My travel blog is pettitstravels.blogspot.com/