Always good to hear from you halfway around the world.

I definitely had a great November, and January is already looking better than December, after I sold some links on Medellin Living the first week.

But I’m more excited about the huge bump in traffic GoBackpacking.com is experiencing right now. Page impressions are up something crazy like 30%, and it’s coming from Google. It’s not a spike tied to any particular bookmarking/social media network, so I’m hoping that even if it tapers as the month wears on, these new numbers are here to stay through the Spring as people prepare for their 2010 travels.

Ya, getting in early has been great but it’s a shame I didn’t put more work in back in the early days! Shoulda, coulda, woulda. But having an income sprout out of a hobby is amazing. I don’t know about you, but back in 2001 when I started I didn’t expect to be able to make a living out of the internet.

It’s a shame you had such a big drop from November but if you look at it a different way you could say it’s great you had such a big November!

I’m looking like I will get back on track in January after a not so good month in December. Hopefully uou will do the same.

Kirsty

Thanks! Yea, I bought the gobackpacking.com domain back in early 1999. Probably the best website/blog decision I’ve ever made.