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❋ Personal & Travel · 15 February 2026

Welcome to my re-launched blog

After over a year away, I'm back - with some posts lost, and a new AI-angle.

I'm excited that, after a year away, I'm re-launching my blog - now fully vibe-coded and managed by yours truly (I'm just a little proud) and featuring an AI section, coming soon.

For those of you who visited this blog before its hiatus - I unfortunately lost a number of blog posts, thinking I had more time to move them from Wordpress, hosted on Bluehost, to a Claude-coded design hosted on Hostinger. I didn't. Bluehost appears to be holding a backup hostage for over $300, and I don't really feel like paying that sort of extortionate amount to access it... so I'll rebuild, rewrite and reflect my way through this instead.

I also decided to take creative writing off of this blog completely, as it felt ultimately stifling to tie my real name to something so deeply personal. Moving forward, this blog will still be personal, but a little more contained, with my very most creative self living elsewhere.

And so I'm imperfectly back at this - with only some Estonia posts to show for now, but more variety on the way soon. It's a work in progress... welcome back!

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Aimee Bothwell

A late-30s millennial splitting time between Bulgaria, Estonia and the US. Midwestern American by upbringing and a bit restless by disposition. Both fascinated and concerned by AI - and deeply opposed to AI slop.

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