Wow, so it's certainly been a good few years since my last "real trip", but as I'm preparing for my journey, I'm finding my head is spinning with all the new possibilities that exist. For my last long trek, which was longer ago than I care to acknowledge, we went crazy burning CDs and assessing how many we could carry- 10, 15, was 20 too excessive?-buying film, looking into phone cards to call our moms or make reservations, finding the perfect notebooks-and y...

So I've finally decided to start a blog. Yup after years of contemplation, it would seem that my desire to not become adept at the infamous and all too oft resorted to "copy-paste email" has driven me to this-blogging. I can't say if it'll stick, but you'll certainly find me here for the duration of my up-coming travels, regaling you with tales of adventure and happenstance or just spewing arbitrary ramblings; 'cuz who are we kidding, that's as likely as anythi...