Prologue: Concerning Blogging
"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring Fly, you fools! Tomorrow, exactly 3 months ago, I got swept off to Chile. Another country, on another continent, in another hemisphere, on the other side of the world. Like a Baggins leaving the Shire, I stepped out my front door in Herefordshire (heh... get it... Shire) with a quest, not quite knowing what was going to happen. Unlike a Baggins however, my quest wasn't (and still isn't) to burgle from a dragon, or take the One Ring and cast it back int...