This week I decided to start my Blog Crawl with Nomadic Chick, a fellow Canadian Travel Blogger who oddly enough has planned almost the same route as I have! After perusing her site, I clicked on her Blogs-Travelers tab and let my blog crawl begin!  Here’s where my clicks took me this week!

1. Uncornered Market – I clicked into their post “Ecuador, More Than Just The Galapagos: Photo Essays and Panorama”. I love reading/looking at photo essays, they’re a great source of inspiration.
2. Gap Year Escape- I read their post “A Backpacker’s Guide to Hostel Sex”. It just made me laugh, and brought back a memory from when I worked at HI Niagara. Funny stuff!
3. From Here to Uncertainty- a great blog on family travel, plus I’m jealous that they’re in one of my favourite cities- Edinburgh.
4. Filipina on Flip Flops- Ok, I am obsessed with flip flops, so I already love this blog.
5. Everything Everywhere- This is not my first time to this blog, in fact I’ve visited quite a few times.  I love his photography and it’s not secret that I’m addicted to “This Week In Travel”. My post choice? First Night in Bangkok.
6. The Lost Girls- I love it when I crawl across fabulous blogs like this one! Check it out and see for yourself.
7. Camels and Chocolate- I know, the name is fantastic.  I love the writing, and the photography is wonderful.  This is a blog I could get use to reading. (I think I need to add an extra 4 hrs to the day. I could do a 28hr day).
8. The Window Seat- A great blog, I loved the list of most romantic hotels in North America, some definite surprises there.

Once again I’ve crawled and stumbled some great new blogs today, as well as visiting some favs.  Although there are always new blogs to discover, there are often 1 or 2 blogs that are mentioned on almost every list. Such as Everything Everywhere.  I’m fortunate to have most Monday’s off, which means I get to start my week doing something I love- travel.  For now, it’s blog crawling. When the weather warms up it’ll include some day trips as well.

If you have a blog you think I should check out, leave a comment and tell me about it.  I’m always on the look-out for new blogs to read and stumble.  Next Monday I’ll be starting on The Aussie Nomad‘s blog and crawling my way through the web from there.

It started with trying to figure out Stumble.  I’m still new and figuring out kinks etc.  This is how it works. I start on one of my favourite blogs, read some posts, stumble if I liked them, then click a blog from their links list (baring that they have one) and repeat the above steps.

Here’s where my Blog Crawl lead me this week.

1. Candice Does the World- She’s Canadian, she’s funny, enough said!
2. Lonely Girl Travels- She writes some seriously funny stuff.  Her Cuba tales were, interesting to say the least.
3. Lives of Wander- I’m thrilled I’ve discovered this blog.  The writing is gripping. The first post I read, Onboard a Sinking Ship made me want to read more.
4. Almost Fearless- I just LOVE the name of this blog.  My post read? How to Fly Around the World Absolutely Free. It’s an interesting review, I’m still in the contemplation stage.
5. Kaleidoscopic Wandering- Although I’ve only traveled to Seattle a few times, I’m intrigued by this post: Bill Speidel’s Underground Tour.
6. A Pair of Panties & Boxers – It’s an intriguing title for a blog, wouldn’t you say?
7. Global Grasshopper – Read a post about Singapore, interesting options, way to expensive for my tastes though.
8. Nomadic Notes Travel Blog- I saw this one listed on a few of the above blogs, so I clicked! Eat Your Way Around Penang has made me hungry!
9. The TravMonkey- I loved their post “Top 10 Female Packing Tips”.
10. The Longest Way Home-  Traveling for over 4 years and counting!

Whew!  All that surfing was tiring, but I found some great new blogs to follow and stumble.  A lot of blogs were linked repeatedly in the above blogs. Most of which I follow already, so I stayed with blogs I’ve never clicked on before (With the exception of my first 2 blogs, which I read regularly).