Be careful when blogging, we are occasionally told, for you never know who your readers are.

This is good advice, if only partially true. I don’t know the names of the people reading my blog, but I am able to see where you’re coming from, what browser and operating system you’re using, and, in some cases, how you got here. It’s often very interesting.

I have had visitors from the following 21 countries:

  • US United States (46%)
  • Canada Canada (29%)
  • Vietnam Vietnam (10%)
  • Hong Kong Hong Kong
  • Korea South Korea
  • China China
  • Mexico Mexico
  • Germany Germany
  • Jamaica Jamaica
  • Brazil Brazil
  • UK United Kingdom
  • Pakistan Pakistan
  • Nicaragua Nicaragua
  • Sweden Sweden
  • Taiwan Taiwan
  • Thailand Thailand
  • Australia Australia
  • Tanzania Tanzania
  • Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro
  • Israel Israel
  • India India

It’s fun trying to figure out who is visiting from these countries. I imagine most are fellow SALT volunteers from their various placements around the globe.

And unless you typed durksen.com into your web browser, or got here through a bookmark, I can see what you clicked that brought you here. For the most part, you are arriving via the MCC SALT blog list or my Facebook profile. But a few guests have arrived through a Google, Yahoo, or MSN search. Here’s what you put in the search box:

  • Trenches in Vietnam
  • Sentences with shallow
  • American friendships are shallow
  • TRAIN HORN IMPENDING DOOM [this is my favourite, especially because the capital letters heighten the sense that doom is actually impending.]
  • American car horns honk in what musical key?
  • Jet lag fly east west Taipei
  • American cars and trucks in Vietnam
  • Rooster horns for cars

I imagine most visitors from this category left disappointed.