Attending to final business of closing up life. And then working on packing strategy. I acquired many items in the last two weeks that I haven’t even opened. My time for the last couple weeks was focused on moving out of my house and selling my possessions. If my motorcycle had feelings and could express […]
All my possessions are scattered everywhere in Angie’s bedroom. Water purification tablets over there. A mosquito net here. There’s the Thermarestｨ and the sleeping bag. Wait! Where’s the tent? I know I brought it. Is it still in the back of the GTO? Shit. Did I forget it? Did it get packed into my storage […]
My final night in Southern California. I’ll spend it with someone very special. We’ll have one final quiet evening and a long goodbye at The Ritz-Carlton in Laguna Niguel. We order room service from the fine dining restaurant. Swim in the pool and chill in the Jacuzzi. We gaze over the Pacific. The white water […]
Am I ready? My mind races through the long daunting list of to-dos that put me on edge. Friends and acquaintances that catch me either on the phone or around town grin ear to ear when they see me. “You must be so excited!” Others say “I don’t have to tell you to enjoy life […]
I don’t think I’m ready. Though I’ve been working on this plan for more than two years, I realize that nothing can prepare you for the dichotomy of feelings and thoughts that run through my body. Excitement and Anticipation and sadness and loss I drove down the street where a new family has moved into […]
The countdown begins. Not that the last two years of planning, reading, dreaming and anticipating haven’t served as a slow burning fuse leading up to d-day. But today I’m homeless. Someone strange has moved into my house. Now this feels real. I stood staring at the few bags and boxes sitting on my driveway. Filled […]
Just installed Movable Type onto my webserver. After some mishaps including initially setting permissions wrong, uploading cgi files in binary and typos in my mt.cfg file, I am happy to say that I’ve successfully installed Movable Type. Just what I need for the ambitious worldrider.com site… Now, should I make the painful migration from radio […]
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