Shortly before our wedding in 2007, we were given a small travel journal. Starting with our honeymoon in Thailand, we began keeping daily notes of our overseas trips, just for our own memories. Since then, we’ve continued the custom on every overseas trip we’ve taken. Our practice is for Joie and me to take turns writing journal entries describing the day’s events, at least one per day. In the case of especially eventful days, or if we both want to add our own perspective on something, we may both write an entry for the same day or event.
About a year ago, we got the idea of entering all our old travel journal entries from the paper book into some kind of computerized digital format, for ease of backup and preservation. That evolved into the idea of just putting everything up on a website. That evolved into the idea of having a website, not just for travel stories and pictures, but for general thoughts, ideas, recipes, and other things we don’t mind sharing with anyone who’s interested.
Why “The Facehole?”
Wherever we go, we’ve noticed that Joie (the skilled chef) tends to notice and remember the details of the food and the cuisine, whereas I (the amateur linguist) tend to pay more attention to language-related things. “The Facehole” (don’t forget the definite article!) is intended to reflect both of our personalities and interests, the mouth being, of course, the place where food goes in, and words come out.