Day: -2
Well I am not completely done with making friends or maintaining relationships with people, I did say godbye to the vast majority of my friends last night at my all night celebration. It was a drunk night and I am pretty sure that I made a complete ass out of myself in many ways. [...]
Day: -5
So it was my last night of work (i.e. a party behind the bar), I pretty much made Mareena do all the work while I drank the entire bottle of vodka that she brought for me, what a sweet girl. The night went pretty much as planned. I drank to much, cursed [...]
Day: -7
Spent the last couple of weeks just out saying goodbye to all my friends, finishing up the last of the packing details and wrapping up the rest of the loose ends on my life. I am even going to do the unthinkable (ie. responsible) thing of writing a will, I plan to leave it [...]
Day -14:
Yellowstone National Park, August 2005.
It’s getting down to the wire and my toes are wiggling. I wake up every morning expecting I will be somewhere else. It has been kind of crazy lately, all of my friends want to go out and individually celebrate my leaving, so needless to say I have maintained a [...]
Day -24:
Blarney Castle, Ireland. Feb. 2005
Reading, reading and more reading about everywhere I want to go, and all I learn is that my toughest decisions are still ahead of me. I can’t even begin to decide all the places I have to go. I am hoping that advice from the road will help me [...]
Day -26:
I had an interesting dream last night, it was one of those dreams that was so vivid that you swear it’s real, then you wake up and realize things are not how you thought they were. In my dream I won 10 million dollars on a lotto scratcher and was exuberant. Then I started [...]
Day -28:
Cozumel, Mexico. October 2005
Good news and bad news. Good news is I found a ticket from Milan (where I’ll meet my brother Matt for a few days in mid-March) to Bratislava (Slovakia) on the 21st of March for a penny + tax so I comes out to $13.84. Its a bummer that the Italian [...]
Day: -31
Laughlin,Nevada. January 3, 2006.
For those of you wondering on how I am packing for a trip like this.
Oh how to choose? And what should I bring?
My main bag: After trying out countless bags I settled on a Kelty 3100 cubic inch (50 liter) bag. I have packed it a few times and it feels [...]
Day: -32
I did it! I bought my one way ticket to Geneva for $367 and I leave on Feb 28th at 12:16pm and arrive in Switzerland on March 1 (Day 1 of my trip) at 2:20pm. I am so excited I feel like I did before when I was seven and it was christmas [...]
Day -35:
I have often told people “I’m going to take a trip around the world” (well, ad the slur and speed of my Californian dialect and it sounds like “imgonnatakeatriproundtheworld”) the most common response to this is “Do it while you can”, “Do it while you’re young” or “I wish I could do that” and [...]
