Hello, I’m Andy from California, USA.
I’ve always wanted to find a way to chronicle my travels and share them with people.
When I traveled in Europe for three months back in 2001, I sent links to my photo albums to friends as a way of sharing my travel stories. For myself, I wrote about my travels daily in a Word document for 90 days.
Fast forward to 2007, when I started metrosnapshot as my first blog. I had a vision for it, but due to a multitude of reasons I’ve never been able to consistently update the site. A few years after, I started a design blog called DesignsWeLove, and I’ve had a lot of great experiences writing and sharing about the world of design – my first passion is still travel.
My approach to travel is to walk a lot, and walk for hours, especially when I am traveling alone. I feel if I walked more, I would get to know a place better (and produce a map in my head). I also like to learn a bit of the language before I go somewhere, because with language you get to know a bit more about a culture and its people. I can speak a few languages, but am continuing to study more.
So with locateandy I am starting over again, and bringing the metrosnapshot blog’s posts here with me. Please let me know what you think, and thank you for reading.