Join Waukesha resident Brien Lee and his blog, Sir Fido, as they explore the city and report on the interesting things they find.
It's Takin the Blog for a Walk's first blogiversary and more than one hundred entries have been posted. I'd like to take this time to thank the Journal Sentinel, Community Newspapers and Mark Maley for giving me this opportunity and readers of WaukeshaNOW and Marketplace for your feedback.
This blog has allowed me to write about things I'm passionate about and has given me motivation to get out and do more. It's also been one year since I lost my weekend job and I've enjoyed all the new things I've been able to do since then and am happy to be able to write about them.
My fear in doing this was I'd run out of things to write about, maybe in winter nothing would be happening, but that hasn't been the case. Something is always going on in or around Waukesha. This weekend we're going camping so I hope to write about that. I'm really amazed by the varied offering of free or low cost things to do around here. Sometimes you have to volunteer to get into something but it's still fun and it's free.
My favorite blog is "The list of things to do before I die just got shorter" on 7/25/06. I went up in a hot air balloon for the first time (it cost me nothing because I was volunteering) and told about it as in a letter to my dad. I cried while writing it because of all the emotions I was experiencing. I called in to a radio show and talked about the flight and the letter, and later blogged about the radio show and added a link to the broadcast. Even though we only floated from one end of Waukesha to another, I got a lot of mileage out of my first balloon flight.
Thanks for reading!
