Wowza. 100,000 hits/site visits – almost all of them in the last 12 months. Sure, some of those visits are just google image search hits for one image and not the site – but nowadays more than half of the 400+ hits per day are from people specifically coming to view the site. Hope you’re enjoying your visit while you stop on by and peruse this collection of images from the ‘net (and just a few of my own photos)! I’d say thanks but I never set out to do this for ego or popularity. Thanks anyway! 100,000 hits in a year is pretty good for a non-porn site, I think. I’m honoured, I truly am.
What’s amazed me is finding out how global the reach has been of this site. People have visited from almost all of the Americas, every single country in Europe (including Vatican City, OMG!, and other little places like San Marino and Monaco), just about all of the nations of the former Soviet Union, just about every single blessed Middle Eastern country and territory, the south and southeastern Asian nations (even including Brunei), Australia – New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea. Would’ve been easier to just say where people have not visited from: China, Tibet, much of Africa (except the nations on the Mediterranean shores), and a few Caribbean and South Pacific islands.
Here’s the list of visits by country with over 100 hits each just since this February 25 (2012). Fascinating. We are the world apparently.
| USA | 9,485 |
 Canada |
1,639 |
 United Kingdom |
1,380 |
 Mexico |
1,365 |
 Germany |
818 |
 Belgium |
752 |
 Norway |
728 |
 Spain |
486 |
 Italy |
462 |
 Australia |
427 |
 France |
411 |
 Brazil |
257 |
 Netherlands |
219 |
 Turkey |
180 |
 Poland |
173 |
 Sweden |
148 |
 Singapore |
128 |
 Argentina |
127 |
 Russian Federation |
119 |
 Greece |
112 |
 Philippines |
109 |
 Japan |
101 |
 New Zealand |
100 |
MATTHEW'S ISLAND 
Congratulations, Matthew! You are obviously fillig a niche, and doing a great job.
Thanks, Dan! It’s fun doing this site. I’ve amassed quite a collection that’d take forever to put up on this site. Been thinking about switching over to Tumblr since you can load faster there – but I prefer the WordPress format. We’ll see. Glad you’re enjoying the site and thanks for boosting the site visits from Mexico!
I use WordPress too, on our site about living and traveling in Mexico http://www.365mexico.com. I really like all the creativity. Check out our adventures!
I’ll check it out – thanks! I’ve been to Mexico a couple of times. Cities I’ve visited include Acapulco, Mexico City, Guanajuato, San Miguel Allende (or something like that), Cuernevaca, Puebla and Cholula (for several months in grad school), and Veracruz.
I Iove your site! Thanks for finding such fun/cool images. I visit often. 🙂
Thanks Blue Warrior! Glad you’re enjoying your visits.
Matthew, you really know Mexico! By weird chance, most of the places you name I haven’t been to yet. We love Mexico City, and Guadalajara is the best place on earth. What did you study in grad school?
I loved Guanajuato the best out of all the places I’ve been in Mexico. Never been to Guadalajara but getting a taste of it from visiting your site – enjoyed what little I’ve had a chance to check out so far on your site. Sounds like you guys have a great life! I didn’t enjoy Mexico City because both times I was there the air pollution was SO bad I could barely breathe. I studied International Development (Rural Development and Small Business specialist) in grad school (Univ. of Penn.). Did immersion Spanish classes in Cuernavaca then fied studies based in Cholula.
Guanajuato is beautiful, with the hills and the pastel-colored houses. The mummies are a little weird, though. Some of them died in the 70’s, and their relatives still go to see them. The pollution in Mexico City has improved in recent years. They are doing a lot of vertical plantings and limiting driving. You have to come to Guadalajara–the boiling river, the artist colonies, incredible food, Tequila. Lots of culture (we saw Liza Minnelli here!), arts, and beautiful people. And we are three hours from tropical beaches. I grew up in Central NY, so it is a bit of a change for me… I really love it. Omar is from here, and is a proud Tapatio!
Yeah, I thought the mummies were a bit macabre but Guanajuato was such a lovely and fun town. Never been to Guadalajara but your site certrainly makes it sounds very inviting. I do love good food, art, and beautiful people – and warm weather! Maybe I’ll visit next winter!
We’d love to show you around. GDL hosted the Panamerican games in October, so the city is all spiffed up and shiny and just beautiful. Unfortunately the Cuban swim team went back home (many tears shed that day) but there are still plenty of great reasons to visit. And Guanajuato is just 3 hours away, if you’re in the mood for mummies…