Pre-travel initial post

I was just prompted by the announcement by a travel mate who started a travel blog that I should also create a blog for our trip to China that commences with our flight out of SLC on July 23 and ends with our flight home on August 8. Another e-friend who has relocated to China and is wise in the ways of Chinese internet problems has warned that blogspot might not be accessible through the Chinese firewall. Here's hoping that emailing the posts might be a work-around the firewall. We shall see, but if I don't try to make some kind of journal while we have feet on the ground, I know myself well enough to predict that it won't ever happen once we get back home.