Prologue

The First Blog.

The start of something new.

The First Blog, christened with a cup of port and brandy.

My blog site was born with the realization that a) I want to keep people updated with my progress in life and b) I'm not very good at doing that. I've denoted my blog site as an 'electronic travel journal' and I intend it to be that, but I don't want to be confined by travel as a means of posting blogs. This is a life blog with a general focus on my thoughts while in different locations. This is an electronic travel journal with a short attention span toward the focus of travel. I will blog when I am drawn to blog. With that disclaimer, my travel goals are:

-Alaska, USA (my current location, displaced from California)
-New York City, NY, USA (two weeks with sparse planning, starting November 6th, 2008)
-Central America (duration undetermined, starting September, 2009)

Why the focus on travel?

We, as human beings, watch life on this planet conduct it's business. We are children watching a scene, one eye pressed up to a tiny hole in a bed sheet, taking in what we can see. Without experiencing the perspectives of others, people who experience life in vastly different ways with vastly different means of living, I feel that my understanding of life is distorted by the limited vision I have developed from my limited experience. Travel is my way of tearing the hole in that bed sheet open a little further, to get a wider perspective on life.

You can see the port and brandy has taken hold of me now. Haha!

So, anticipate posts from Alaska. Anticipate posts from New York City. Anticipate posts from somewhere, wandering but not lost, in the as-of-yet self-uncharted lands of Central America. I don't know where this story will end, but it begins right here. I am working for John Byrne III in Girdwood, Alaska.