...seventy days, seven countries, seven modes of transportation, seven completed journals...
Before I celebrate Thanksgiving this year, I will celebrate my seventieth birthday. This is totally (and wonderfully) incredible to me...Imagine, seventy years on this small, remarkable, blue marble of a planet!! Amazing!
As I review the places I've been, the people I've met, the things I've seen and discovered, I become more and more conscious of the fact that I have been using and investing my days well...I have been daring and wise and foolish and lucky and optimistic. And I have been curious about what happens next...What can I discover? How can I share my abiding love of discovery with others?
I have a plan!
In my past travels, I have explored many countries and cultures. It has always been awesome to catapult myself into the unknown...Who am I when I don't know the language and customs of a country? How do I make friends? How do I embrace the people? How do I absorb their Art, their landscape, their foods, their celebrations?
I have been half way around the world many times...however: I have never breathed my way ALL the way around the World! That is what I want to do. It has been a dream of mine for half a century. I remember, in the early 60's, when my friend John Allen returned from his circumnavigation of our planet...He grabbed my shoulders, looked in my eyes and said, "I've been around the fucking world!!" That sentence has stayed with me for all these decades!
I will leave in December of this year! I plan to go to Malta, Morocco, Madagascar, Mauritius (and maybe the Seychelles), Malaysia, Myanmar and Mexico! I know..."M" countries...it's a partial accident. My exact itinerary is subject to change. I plan to stay warm. Perhaps, when I'm seventy-five, I"ll do the snowy countries!
In the next two months, I will raise $20,000. to make the trip. I will: sell Art from my personal collection; write to clients for support; get an advance from a publisher; create a Kickstarter Project...
This is my initial declaration. My ideas will become more concrete soon. Stay tuned. I know I will need lots and lots of good wishes and prayers...
Before I celebrate Thanksgiving this year, I will celebrate my seventieth birthday. This is totally (and wonderfully) incredible to me...Imagine, seventy years on this small, remarkable, blue marble of a planet!! Amazing!
As I review the places I've been, the people I've met, the things I've seen and discovered, I become more and more conscious of the fact that I have been using and investing my days well...I have been daring and wise and foolish and lucky and optimistic. And I have been curious about what happens next...What can I discover? How can I share my abiding love of discovery with others?
In my past travels, I have explored many countries and cultures. It has always been awesome to catapult myself into the unknown...Who am I when I don't know the language and customs of a country? How do I make friends? How do I embrace the people? How do I absorb their Art, their landscape, their foods, their celebrations?
I have been half way around the world many times...however: I have never breathed my way ALL the way around the World! That is what I want to do. It has been a dream of mine for half a century. I remember, in the early 60's, when my friend John Allen returned from his circumnavigation of our planet...He grabbed my shoulders, looked in my eyes and said, "I've been around the fucking world!!" That sentence has stayed with me for all these decades!
I will leave in December of this year! I plan to go to Malta, Morocco, Madagascar, Mauritius (and maybe the Seychelles), Malaysia, Myanmar and Mexico! I know..."M" countries...it's a partial accident. My exact itinerary is subject to change. I plan to stay warm. Perhaps, when I'm seventy-five, I"ll do the snowy countries!
In the next two months, I will raise $20,000. to make the trip. I will: sell Art from my personal collection; write to clients for support; get an advance from a publisher; create a Kickstarter Project...
This is my initial declaration. My ideas will become more concrete soon. Stay tuned. I know I will need lots and lots of good wishes and prayers...
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