Defining something — a word, a concept, a theory, a website — can be a difficult thing.

How much information do you include? Do you try to be funny? Witty? Straight to the point? How many exclamation points is considered overly enthusiastic? How many rhetorical questions can one paragraph have? All of these things cross my mind as I try to condense my thoughts to tell you in some coherent fashion what All Things Wanderful is.

More than anything, this site is a travel blog which covers destinations far and wide, from my own backyard in the Midwest to the other side of the world. But it is more than that, too: it is a place to share ideas, a space for us to get to know one another, a way for me to keep my writing skills sharpened, and a catalogue of sorts — a spot to keep track of the places I’ve been and the things I’ve experienced along the way.

My primary goal is to inform; my secondary goal is to entertain. Hopefully, every time you read a post on All Things Wanderful you can check off both boxes.

My name is Logan…

…and I started this blog back in the spring of 2016. I didn’t know what it would be at that time, but after throwing together personal essays, album reviews, and all kinds of random ditties for about a year, I began travel blogging on a consistent basis.

From May 2017 onward, this site, which was originally known as Logan’s Run (more on that in a second), has allowed me to chronicle trips to Nashville, Toronto, and Iceland; cobble together travel advice from respected sources (and sprinkle in my own two cents here and there); and has given every visitor a peek inside my head, which tends to have a snarkier voice than the real-life me.

At the start of 2020, I changed the name of the blog from Logan’s Run to All Things Wanderful. The move was made primarily so I would no longer be competing with the 1976 film of the same name when it comes to the Google machine, but also because I feel the new name better captures what this site is all about — the wonder, and the wander, of travel.

I’ve made my way to 11 countries so far, along with over 30 of these here United States. Which is to say: I’ve still got a long way to go. I hope you’ll stick around to see what comes next.

-LTH