Once in a great while, someone wants to see behind the curtain and know more about the people who write these entries and who take the photographs. Perhaps this desire is heightened by the fact that we go to significant lengths to keep ourselves out of the photos and in fact, I can really only think of one exception to that rule which involves the Black Sea. Now you know more or less where to look in the photo files if you really need to know.
We keep ourselves in the background in part to preserve a sense of privacy, to be sure, but also because this site and its contents are not so much about whom we are as it is about where we have gone and why we have gone there.
Besides, better than 99% of the people who read anything posted here know all too well who we are, and to retell the story would just be boring!