I am taking you on a trip next week, my fellow readers. Come next wednesday, this blog is shifting focus to be more of a travelogue. Christy and I are headed back to the States for the holidays, and we figured that we would take the long way. When you are on the flip side of the world, I suppose that there is no real short way to get home, but let me just say that we are making a few stops along the way.

Now I bet that you want to know where we are going. Well, that is not how it is going to work. Why? This is not really what you want. What you really want is to feel like you are on the road with me. I am going to do my best to abide to this wish by giving you updates from the various seedy internet cafes I come upon along the way.

There are some cool spots on this trip, and yes, I am pretty excited about this whole thing. Oddly, I think the most exciting aspect of the trip is reporting back to you as I go along. (There goes my inner journalist again.) I'm off now to buy travel supplies from backpacker alley. Tons of things to be done before we get airborne!