Mark Blondin on Mythryl: “Thirty years ago today, October 4, 1996, we set out for Cleveland. A…”

Thirty years ago today, October 4, 1996, we set out for Cleveland. A family, a website, and an online following, two years before Google existed. How it unfolded, at Longreads: longreads.com/2026/09/22/f...

longreads.comStill On Its Way to Cleveland - LongreadsNine months, 25,000 miles, one phone cord, and the kindness of strangers.

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"We were doing something that had no name and no manual, and we were doing it over a dial-up modem while living in a motorhome." @markblondin.com and Betsy Blondin launched a family travel blog in 1996 on an internet that no longer exists: longreads.com/2026/09/22/f...

longreads.comStill On Its Way to Cleveland - LongreadsNine months, 25,000 miles, one phone cord, and the kindness of strangers.

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