A to Z Road Trip 2025 #AtoZChallenge2025

IT'S ROAD TRIP TIME!

Road trip is our annual post-challenge tradition, which gives everyone an opportunity to visit others, and catch up on things they missed in April. Do you have blogs on your list you didn't get around to read? Did you run out of time and not get to follow along as much as you wanted to? Here is your chance!

FIRST: Sign up for the Road Trip! You can do it here. You can choose which one of your A to Z posts you want people to land on. Also, get the Road Trip badge from the graphics page above for your own blog!

SECOND: Get copies of the Road Trip List and the Master List to use as a guide!

THIRD: Start visiting blogs! You can go through the list of those who are participating in Road Trip. Read some posts, leave some comments! Leave a link to your blog. Visit back those who visit your blog. Go to the Master List, and visit some blogs that you didn't get the chance to in April! Enjoy!

LAST, BUT NOT LEAST: There is no time limit for Road Trip! Visit and read at your leisure. 

HAVE FUN!

Important dates for 2026:

March 9-14 Theme Reveal

March 23- April 4 Sign-up

May 4-9 Reflections

May 11 - Road Trip opens

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Reflections #AtoZChallenge2025

  

Our team theme this year was our blogging community, gratitude, or being grateful for our blogging community.

April is over. How did your blogging journey go? Now is the time to start reflecting on what you’ve accomplished this month.

Reflections sign up: https://forms.gle/YHYF1Byz4XJd384h6

The Reflections post isn’t mandatory and it’s an additional blog hop you can sign up for. This is where you tell others what you thought of the blog hop and how you experienced it. I’ll add some questions for you to think of below. Remember to grab the winners’ badge and display it proudly on your site if you completed the 26 letters.

In my Reflections post, I usually have a list with links of all my posts for the month so people can easily access it. I also have a list (with links) to my top commenters and my favourite A-Z blogs. Then I’ll talk about my likes and dislikes, how I approached the challenge (writing posts, visiting other blogs, etc.) and my verdict of the year’s challenge.

As you see, the Reflections post is all about your experiences and what you gained from them.

Some other questions to spark your creativity:

• Did you finish the challenge?
• What was your favourite post to write?
• What was your favourite comment posted by another A-Z participant on your blog this April?
• Did you follow the A-Z team on social media? (Who and where?)
• Did you follow the A-Z Challenge on social media? (Which platforms?)
• Did you feel supported by the A-Z team? (The Team: Arlee Bird, J Lenni Dorner, Zalka Csenge Virág, John Holton, Jayden R Vincente, and Ronel Janse van Vuuren.)
• Did you like the graphics for this year?
• Did you like the A-Z blog’s theme?
• Did you encourage other bloggers to take part in the challenge this year?
• Did you have a theme on your blog? If so, how did you come up with it?
• Did you learn anything new because of the A-Z Challenge?
• Will you consider doing the challenge again next year?

Remember to drop the direct link to your post in the sign-up sheet for the Reflections blog hop – and check out what others thought about this year’s challenge.

Reflections sign up: https://forms.gle/YHYF1Byz4XJd384h6

Result: https://tinyurl.com/3j6kapkz -- visit others!

Watch this space for the announcement of this year’s A-Z RoadTrip!

Important dates for 2026:

March 9-14 Theme Reveal

March 23- April 4 Sign-up

May 4-9 Reflections

May 11 - Road Trip opens

MASTER LIST https://tinyurl.com/tauke86z

Hop to as many blogs in the challenge as possible. Grow and strengthen the community.

Please follow us!

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@AprilA2Z Our hashtag is #AtoZChallenge 

Z is for Zoom #AtoZChallenge2025

Z is for Zoom!

(And I don't mean the video software!) 

Where in the world did April go? Zoom! It went so fast!

Pretty soon, we'll be reflecting on this crazy experience (May 2nd) and then taking a Road Trip through A to Z Blogs (May 10th). It's always hard to pick a Z word. Some might say it's a difficult letter to figure out, but I think there are too many good words!

Zoom

Zip

Zap

Zen

Zero

Zillion

Zesty

What is your favorite Z word?

MASTER LIST https://tinyurl.com/tauke86z

Hop to as many blogs in the challenge as possible. Grow and strengthen the community.

Important dates for 2026:

March 9-14 Theme Reveal

March 23- April 4 Sign-up

May 4-9 Reflections

May 11 - Road Trip opens

Please follow us!

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@AprilA2Z Our hashtag is #AtoZChallenge 

Yeomanly #AtoZChallenge 2025

Yeomanly - Characterized by hard work and dedication, especially when supporting others.

Did you do what it takes to complete the challenge? Create 26 blog posts inspired by the English alphabet in April? Supported the blogs of fellow participants with positive comments? Have you been working hard and dedicating yourself to winning the challenge? Were you diligent, even when the challenge was difficult? 

Thank you for being here. Hopefully, this blog hop has sparked joy! 

As the #AtoZChallenge 2025 nears its conclusion, here are some questions to inspire your Reflections post. (Reflections is an optional third blog hop in which we take time to look back on the #AtoZChallenge 2025 to gain perspective so that we can learn from our experience and, hopefully, feel grateful that we took part.)

• Has the #AtoZChallenge 2025 helped you to feel like a successful blogger? 
• Did you support other #AtoZChallenge 2025 bloggers?
• Is the #AtoZChallenge neighborhood blogging community good for your mental health?
• How could the team make this blog hop better for next year?
• What would entice you to visit and comment on the A to Z site every month?

Reflections — Sign up from May 2-9

MASTER LIST https://tinyurl.com/tauke86z

Hop to as many blogs in the challenge as possible. Grow and strengthen the community.

Important dates for 2026:

March 9-14 Theme Reveal

March 23- April 4 Sign-up

May 4-9 Reflections

May 11 - Road Trip opens

Please follow us!

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@AprilA2Z Our hashtag is #AtoZChallenge 

Well then...

Well, the 2025 Blogging from A to Z April Challenge is rapidly coming to a close, and will soon be little more than a pleasant memory for all of us. I hope you've had fun. I hope you found a few new blogs for your reading pleasure. I hope that some of you discovered the joy of daily blogging and might consider trying it in the future. I've been blogging daily since July 2014, and don't foresee a time when I don't. And most of all, I hope you'll plan on joining us next year, same Bat-time, same Bat-channel, for the 2026 Blogging from A to Z April Challenge!

Farewell, Godspeed, Keep On Blogging, and as I always say, see you in the funny papers!

John Holton

MASTER LIST https://tinyurl.com/tauke86z

Hop to as many blogs in the challenge as possible. Grow and strengthen the community.

Please follow us!

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@AprilA2Z Our hashtag is #AtoZChallenge 

Unique #AtoZChallenge2025

Our team theme this year is our blogging community, gratitude, or being grateful for our blogging community.

Today, we are grateful for things that make us unique. What are the things in your blogging career, in your writing, in your interests, that are unique to you? What are the unique things you are grateful for in your life - things that make it more interesting, more engaging, more curious? There is strength in community, and strength in shared interest. But there is also strength in everyone bringing something new to the table. 

What is your unique thing? How did you find it, or how did it find you?

MASTER LIST https://tinyurl.com/tauke86z

Hop to as many blogs in the challenge as possible. Grow and strengthen the community.

Please follow us!

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@AprilA2Z Our hashtag is #AtoZChallenge 

Treating others as they'd like to be treated #AtoZChallenge 2025

"Treating others as they'd like to be treated" (Sleeping In - Song by The Postal Service)

Have you been treating your fellow AtoZChallenge bloggers as you'd like to be treated? Have you commented, shared, and liked posts? Have you respected the time they carved out to participate in this blog hop? 

Do you feel as though others have reciprocated? Are you being treated as you'd like on your blog? Has the A to Z team supported you and this community well enough this year? 

I'm grateful to everyone who is taking part. I'm grateful this hop exists and creates opportunities for online social engagement. I volunteer my time as A to Z team captain because I genuinely care.

"If you make somebody else's day or world better, bring them joy, even if it's only a flicker, that's somethin'."

- A Man in Full | S1:E6 #quote

-J

MASTER LIST https://tinyurl.com/tauke86z

Hop to as many blogs in the challenge as possible. Grow and strengthen the community.

Please follow us!

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@AprilA2Z Our hashtag is #AtoZChallenge