The Untold Journey Behind Roge Blasco’s Revival of 6,500 Lost Travel Stories
A living site, not just an archive
Roge isn’t just preserving old work. He’s still doing what he’s always done — finding travelers mid-journey, sitting down with them, and interviewing them along the way.
Roge Blasco explains how he keeps finding new stories: “I continue to interview travelers. Some speak to us at the end of their trip and others I find when they’re still on the road.”
On his site, recent interviews include:
- Josu Iztueta: Cycling from Norway’s North Cape to the Basque Country.
- Paula Belenda: Riding a motorcycle from Spain to Tajikistan and back.
- Agustín Chaler: Reporting from the Afghan-Pakistani border during a year-long trek through Asia.
He’s also digitizing interviews from old cassette tapes — conversations that have never been online before.
Readers can listen to his interviews on the site, follow the podcast, and subscribe to email newsletters for new interviews.
A home that lasts
Platforms come and go. Institutions change direction. Budgets get cut. Hosting providers delete sites when you stop paying.
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I’m conscious that these travel stories are important and interesting enough to endure over time. If we don’t preserve them, they’ll be lost forever.
Roge Blasco Granados, journalist and radio host
That matters when you’re safeguarding a life’s work. Roge already lost his archive once because someone else made a business decision. On WordPress.com, that can’t happen.
Your work deserves a home that lasts, too
Roge spent a career telling stories that would otherwise go unheard. Now those stories have a permanent home — and a growing audience.
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