Rescuing my 2006 Travel Blog

In November 2006 I put everything I owned in my parents’ loft, had a great many injections, and flew to Guatemala. I came back thirteen months later having crossed fourteen countries between Antigua and Tierra del Fuego, and I’d written the whole thing up as it happened — 182 posts typed into internet cafés, hostel lobbies and the occasional boat. That blog is still at travellingchris.blogspot.com. Most of the photos are still on Flickr. Both services still work, but Flickr is now a paid service with limits. And Blogspot is now blogger (or is it the other way round?). Flickr has changed hands three times. And I don’t control either of them. So I took the exports and fed it into Claude to rebuild the whole thing as a static site: travellingchris.atomic14.com. The site itself is pretty boring — Astro, static HTML, photos on Cloudflare R2 - it should run for next to nothing. There were some interesting things along the way. Two archives to reconcile and fix Google Takeout gave me one…