Social Networking

Social Networking




I just love this ‘Social Networking’. I’ve met more interesting people from all over the place…everywhere. I have fine friends from Indonesia that are avid backpackers and climbers. They are young guys barely 20 years old and have discovered that adventure and nature are enjoyable and so important. Most of the jargon spoken is in Indonesian but I’ve downloaded a translator. With this, I can get the idea of what they are saying, a lot of the time. When I send them a post in English they are polite enough to respond in my language. You just have to love the Internet. I have a pal in Australia that is involved with the outback, and posts about culture in the towns. On my very website, I have members living all over the United States and Canada. It’s sooo… cool. I have a bunch of videos on YouTube and the traffic is increasing daily. The vids are mostly from my recent backpacking trek and are flush with us having fun at our newly found base-camp. Often, I’m adding new videos and will continue, until all eighteen are uploaded. I’m a member of Facebook, Twitter, Days of Adventure, Goexplore, Live Space, Publish America, Friday on the Trail, The Book Cubby, Blogger.com, and more. It is a ton of fun.

Most of my life I’ve counted every moment and wouldn’t have bothered with trivialities as such. I was so wrong. Now I have this new hobby and the whole world is not actually passing me by…or falling apart. I’ve reduced my level of stress immensely and happiness is what living is all about…isn’t it?

We need to rethink life as we know it and start enjoying every moment. If you’re already there, then know that you are there and enjoy.



Jim Bondy

Author of: Friday on the Trail

A book about our backpacking adventures in Ontario Canada

HAVE SOME FUN

(My Website) http://jimbondy.webs.com



(My Videos) http://www.youtube.com/user/effexus3



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(E-Mail) effexus3@yahoo.com

Friday on the Trail

Usually I’m not blogging about my book, and I really think that it is an enjoyable read. The book yearns, to figure out how I acquired this obsession. It must have started at birth. Nothing triggered it. It just happened. It’s affected everything and most everyone in my life. We journey through the years longing, hoping and expecting the answers. We find a myriad of them. The stories are true and deal with adventure, happiness, hard-ships and humor…even a touch of sadness. You will laugh with us through the crazy antics. You’ll feel the anxiety of looking down and seeing nothing but space for hundreds of feet.


These backpacking tales will beg you to spring off of the couch and embrace the open fresh air… the breathtaking scenery…the culmination of friends, siblings, sons and daughters. Also; the hardships, the down-pouring in buckets of rain…the soreness from the cutting straps of the gargantuan backpacks, filled with only the essentials to survive.

The catastrophes and the calamities that we endure bring us together. I don’t pull through. You don’t pull through. We pull through! (Besides when everything is nice and peachy and graceful and soft and good…it makes for a boring story). The worse…the better. Just sit back and enjoy one of the most pleasant books that you’ve ever read. It has memoirs from my childhood to todays’ time about backpacking Treks and how I came to love the sport.

My reviews have been very good. I’ve sold a fair amount of copies and that alone should be somewhat of an indicator. It’s easy to find and buy. I offer it on my website (bottom of this blog); most bookstores either have it for sale or will order it for you. It’s featured on “Amazon” in: Canada, US, Germany, England, China (and some other countries…I forget). My publisher “Publish America” has it available through their site. If you just want to read it and not purchase it, you can go to some of the libraries in Essex County Ontario Canada and just borrow it. Also the Librarian at the main branch in Windsor loved it and purchased 3 copies; one for the main library; one for a branch in the East end; one for the historical archives.

Thanks for taking a peek and letting me bend your ear.

Check out the videos on YouTube …just click on the link below. HAVE FUN.

Jim Bondy

Author of: Friday on the Trail

A book about our backpacking adventures in Ontario Canada

http://jimbondy.webs.com

effexus3@yahoo.com

http://www.youtube.com/user/effexus3

http://jimbondy.webs.com/apps/cafepress_shop/

I was saved from YouTube

Wahoo! I finally got my first video to upload to YouTube. I really knocked myself out for too long to no avail. I set up my username and password just as they instructed then when I clicked the ‘sign in’ button and signed in it still spit out the command ‘sign in’. I figured …Oh well…and clicked the upload button. My screen just turned blank except for the message…’Redirecting’…then the little square dots traveled along the load bar, (just like they should). When it completed its tedious journey nothing happened. It just sat there. You could wait for days and it’s still redirecting. Arrrftghhh. After doing this for about…way too many tries, my brainstorm activity kicked in and I posted the perplexing question on my (book publisher) “Publish America Forum”, begging for help to determine how I was possibly screwing this up. Well, Bob Greer ( www.publishedauthors.net/b.d.greer www.authorsden.com/bdavisgreer ) was nice enough and replied to my query and advised me to try a different browser like Firefox/Mozilla. Hmmmmm. Reluctantly, I downloaded this and retried… again. Guess what happened. Everything worked fine. Life is good again! Who would have thought that this would do the trick? Or should I say, I didn’t think that this would do the trick! Anyway it’s great. Now I have 2 browsers, (that is what it’s called eh?) and that makes me a techie… I think.


Yes, I’m Canadian.



As well as these blogs that I do every week, I’m also producing a video blog on YouTube, mostly geared towards backpacking treks, and stuff from my book; “Friday on the Trail”. I’ll also be uploading clips about my website with my bio, favs, It’ll be fun, so keep watching for me. I’ll be the stah of a clip.



Click on my first video blog at:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR8PFpY6Euo