Around the Blogosphere in 80 Days (Blogwagon Roundup)

Recall how fresh faced you were in early February of this year. You had a dewy glow and petroleum flowed unabated around the world’s waterways. You had a pep in your step and had only recently fallen off the wagon of your new year’s resolution. Over 80 days have elapsed since then, and in those 80 days this blogger has moved homes and changed jobs. Others have started wars. But all of that shrivels like a worm on hot pavement in comparison to the feat of virtuosic keyboard clapping undertaken by the collective blogosphere! I issued forth the latest in a string of Blogwagon challenges, this time with the prompt of “maps” and with Amanda Lee Franck art to boot! Over 40 bloggers answered the call to adventure, producing exactly 50 posts by my count.This Blogwagon had the longest active time. Despite one blogger-friend joking “Ah, my favorite Jules Verne novel, Around 10% of the world in 79 days, then the other 90% in 1 day”, the posts ended up being more evenly spread out than I…