10,000 Hits on the Blog!

Thank you, folks, for sharing this journey with me.  It means a lot!

A few of the highlights of the first 10K by the numbers (provided by Blogger's analytics tool) that may only be interesting to me.  Here we go:

# of Posts: 75

Average Visitors per Month: 1,478

# of Pictures: 651

# of Words: 651,000 (just kidding, I have no idea)

Top 10 Most Viewed Pages - Some I would have figured, but I was surprised at what did, and did not, make the cut though:

• Tribute
• The Host with the Moses-t!
• The Unpublished "Out of Africa" Post
• Livin' ain't Mbizi (without almost all of your worldly possessions)
• Regarding My Beard (really people?  Well, I'm growin' another one.  Watch out!)
• Merhaba, Göreme
• Keep on Cookin' - Thai Style
• If there wasn't bulletproof glass, I'd kiss you...
• Good Ol' Taj
• And So it Begins...

Most Visited By Country:

• United States: 82.3%
• Germany: 2.3%
• Italy: 1.7% - Hello to Luca and Moreno!
• Russia: 1.5%
• UK: 1%
• Thailand: 1%
• India: .9%
• Laos: .9%
• South Africa: .7%
• Norway: .6% Hi, Lina!
• South Korea: .5%

I still can’t figure out if I know the people following from Russia. Germany and South Korea though.   You seem to be enjoying it, so I’ll try to keep it up.  And if you get a second, and you do know me, drop me an email.

Thank you again.  Here's to much more to come!