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R. Buchminster Fuller's Global Projection

"We will set down things seen as seen, things heard as heard, so that our book may be an accurate record, free from any sort of fabrication. And all who read this book or hear it may do so with full confidence because it contains nothing but the truth."
-first page of Marco Polo's TRAVELS

UPDATE: Well, I went and got married. My wife and I got rid of all our stuff and hit the road on a round the world honeymoon. We call it Global Honeymoon...check out the website listed above (I did the writing and maps, she did the design work). We have stalled in the middle of Leg 2, running out of money as we are not really even trying to be frugal. We are currently in prague, Czech Republic until September, earning money for onward travel. I will be updating these pages soon with details as to what we done did and what was good and what wasn't.

I am from San Francisco, went away for almost seven years, thenwent back. I decided to stick around and check it the States post-9/11, plus I have goof friends here who are, like, married and have kids and stuff like that. I was a walking tour guide in SF. Now I am on the road and currently in Prague, giving tours and teaching English.

Watch the film "Baraka" if you get a chance. Beautiful non-narrative work that will make you want to travel.

I shall be attempting to describe here details and impressions from my travels thus far as accurately as my substance soaked brain will allow me to, and hopefully share some hints and pointers that will actually be of some small assistance to those who would do more than pop into a country for 48 hours and then go home and be the local authority on that place.

I leave you with a perhaps or perhaps not apt quote from Paul Auster's CITY OF GLASS:

"Quinn was used to wandering. His excursions throught the city had taught him to understand the connectedness of inner and outer. Using aimless motion as a technique of reversal, on his best days he could bring the outside in and thus usurp the sovereignity of inwardness. By flooding himself with externals, by drowning himself out of himself, he had managed to exert some small degree of control over his fits of despair. Wandering, therefore, was a kind of mindlessness."

*finn*