I know I’ve been a blogging slacker lately, but I hope you’ve noticed that I’ve been picking it up a bit lately. My total number of posts has increased by 30% in the last week, and traffic to the blog has ticked up by literally thousands of percentage points. I’m really gonna to try to keep this thing going now, and I know it’s gonna be great!

So now let me tell you about my latest blogging coup (and pretty much the sole reason for my sudden traffic surge).

Occasionally, my friend Geraldine, who has this truly fantastic and wildly popular travel blog, asks me, “How can I push the loyalty, tolerance, and punishment thresholds of my devoted readers to the absolute limit?”

“By featuring me as a guest blogger,” I reply.

So here I am, now a twice-featured guest blogger on The Everywhereist. And seriously, it is such an honor to be featured on Geraldine’s blog. I can’t tell you how flattering it is to have such a smart, witty, all-around kickass writer praise my work, let alone see fit to share her illustrious web-space with me. Someday soon, I’ll have the privilege of saying I knew her when.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy my latest guest post, about Mike’s and my adventures in Italy’s Cinque Terre. And if you haven’t already, be sure to add The Everywhereist to your list of daily reads!