Imagine a sea of motorcycles moving to their destinations like water flowing downhill…
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Hanoi – Three days later
Jet-lag! What Jet-lag?
Where am I and what time is it?
Written at XX:XX AM or PM from Thai Airlines flight 911 in seat 1A:
MSY-IAD-LHR-BKK-HAN (AKA: Away we go!)
After a few days in New Orleans with friends, it’s time to set off for the far east and start one of the most ridiculous travel itineraries I’ve ever created.
The Joys of Flying Standby
Around midnight of last night I discovered I had made a terrible miscalculation in my travel plans…
Final Thoughts on Madison
Now that I’ve officially left Madison, it seems appropriate to summarize three years of experience into a short post.
On the road again
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end – “Closing Time” by Semisonic
Planning Unplanned Travel
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
One Week Later
One of the questions I’ve gotten a lot lately is, “How is retirement?” While I certainly haven’t retired, today marks one full week since I left my job at Epic. So how has it been? In a word – busy. Getting ready to travel for any extended amount of time requires a lot of work; here’s a short list of the things I’ve had to deal with this week:
- Updating the address of every bank/utility/bill/ect
- Updating my car insurance to reflect that the car is going to be sitting for 10 days at a time and not being used
- Getting travel insurance
- Packing
- Getting “technologically” ready (laptop, camera, storage, website, dropbox accounts, ect)
- Visa paperwork
- Ensuring that various ATM and Credit Cards have the PINs I think they do and won’t expire in the middle of the trip
I’ll elaborate on some of these details more in the future, but for now I’ll just say this: Planning Purposefully Unplanned Travel starts with ‘Planning’.
One Way Backpacking 