3,000 Hits?

I started blogging here at Two Home Towns almost exactly six months ago, making my first post just before the New Year and building from there. I frankly went into this with just about nothing in the way of expectations. If I made new friends here in Dallas great, if I only kept old friends in Atlanta and elsewhere up-to-date fine, if it became solely an outlet for my urge to write, well that was OK too. As it turns out, it’s been a bit of all three.

Since I had not the first idea where this would go or if anyone would ever read any of it I was surprised to see my traffic building steadily over the past three months. In the month of June it has zoomed upward with a whole lot of interest in No Country for Young Women Either, An Amsterdam Afternoon and – my longest post ever – The Sky is Falling – in America Anyway. Since I would have been unsurprised to ever see much of any traffic at all, to reach 3,000 hits today is, well, surprising.

Almost all of my traffic used to come from friends new and old with family joining in more recently. Now quite a bit seems to be coming in from search engines and WordPress referrals. Not sure why that is, but I’ll take it. My first sustained hobby in many years has been a lot of fun for me.

What next? As one of my customers used to say whenever presented with virtually any information on any topic, “We’ll see what happens.”