Why have the blog?

After each trip, the friends who were on it would ask if they could see the photos I took. For a while I'd send out massive e-mails that would take ten damn minutes to download. That didn't work. Then I set up a section on my gallery, but it was too buried in my site and friends couldn't find their shots. Finally, I settled on doing it this way: one post with the days' photos and a quick blurb about what went down. This way my friends can find the photos of themselves and I have a good excuse to take pictures on each trip (which keeps me from getting lazy.)