I’ve blogged in this space off-and-on since 2007 after my trip to visit a grad school friend in Germany. However, I didn’t start taking my blogging seriously until 2012 when I started to write about my baseball stadium visits. So right on schedule (another five years later), I decided to try and “professionalize” my blog a bit more. To me, professionalizing my blog meant attending TBEX North America 2017 and seeing what I could learn at a travel blogger conference. Why I did it… So why did I decide to spend three days in Huntsville, Ala., attending an event I knew little about? Like I said, I wanted to make…