It’s now 10:00 pm, and early tomorrow morning I get on a plane for Mexico. Here are a few random thoughts before I become Steve, World Traveller: I think I’m ready. The past few weeks have been very busy, but in a low-key kind of way. There’s been a surprisingly large amount of stuff to [...]
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Final Thoughts
October 29, 2000
Moving
October 17, 2000
It’s 10:40 pm. The movers arrive tomorrow morning at nine to pack my worldy possessions and move them to Vancouver. I have no idea if I’m ready. I don’t know how to know if I’m ready. Yesterday and today are a vague haze of sorting, filtering, stacking and moving. Mostly, I’m sorting everything into two [...]
The To Do List
September 26, 2000
Kate and I are both knee-deep in to do lists. Changes of address, packing and moving, vaccinations, shopping, farewell dinners… I want to take the next hour or so to create yet another to do list, but one with items that won’t get checked off until after we start traveling. learn to surf eat upscale sushi in [...]
Picking A Date
September 13, 2000
The Date On October 2, 2000, I will begin Part 3 of my life. On that day I will celebrate four years of employment at Microsoft by quitting my job and pouring all my energies into getting my butt onto the open road. Parts One and Two Perhaps I should explain what I mean by [...]
Six Questions
March 20, 2000
I have been planning The Trip for so long it has achieved mythic proportions in my imagination. It is both escape and anchor, inspiring great cubicle daydreams and capping the potential of the present. It looms in my future like a great peak. I sit in the shadow, and peer up at the top, and dream of [...]
Manifesto
March 20, 2000
One day, perhaps in the not too distant future, I plan to go travelling for a long, long, time. I want to see every inch of the great multicoloured globe. I’ve made no specific plans, yet, and this website records just my thoughts and dreams about voyages still to come. One day, it should prove [...]