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Got my portfolio up...

twigs

twigs
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Getting my flickr stuff working, and just loaded up photos from my Sept. trip to Banff. Check them out if you want.

I love Austin...

I love Austin as a city full of music, activities, and my friends. Went running down the hike and bike trail from my apartment last night. (so dark that people, and signs materialized only feet in front of me). Just home from playing cards with friends, going to a play tomorrow with friends, and camping this weekend with friends. And I thankfully live in a county that voted overwhelmingly against Bush. My favorite post-election quote was during an interview of the New Yorker's editor on NPR in which he said 'It's a failure of my imagination that keeps me from understanding why people voted for Bush.' All this in mind, I leave in 7 weeks not because I don't appreciate the enjoyment I get from living in Austin, but from a desire to challenge myself. Only time will tell if I'm up to it.

goldensunset

goldensunset
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A photo of sunset in beautiful Austin, not to many left before I'm off...

A-Day is coming to a close.

A for adventure. It's official with my submitting of resignation to work. But as Anna Pilar my yoga instructor said tonight, "Where one thing ends another begins, as everything is a circle." Well, I think life only stops happening when you allow it to. This is my cattle prod way of intruducing an significant dose of adventure, challenge, and novelty into my own life. No ticket, yet the plan is to leave within the first two weeks of January on what is not only the adventure of a lifetime, but the adventure of life. For those of you who don't know the plan, here it is:

Leave Jan. 2005 for Australia
Backpack in Australia for 6 weeks, Fiji for a month, and New Zealand for a month.
Settle down into employment in NZ for ~ 8 months and save money.
Then travel on to South East Asia for 2-3 months (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand)
Continue into India for ~2 months
Then on to an Eastern & Western tour of Europe, hopefully punctuated with employment if only for 6 months.
Then if I make it that far, come back to the US (no specific destination).

All told, I'm looking at about a 2 year trip. Yet, this trip is very open to alteration and spotenaity.

Why am I doing this? I'll attack that question soon, and revise it many times I'm sure.