Countdown...

And so it has begun. In two weeks time I'll be leaving San Diego to walk the world. I've given my notice to my landlord and rented a storage unit. I got a new laptop underway and I should start clearing out old things from my house tonight. I'm off to Tecate tomorrow to pre-pay for my grandfather's rent... at least 3 months. I'm going to miss him and it doesn't seem fair but I got no one else to look after him. I'll send him postcards and letters from wherever I happen to be, hopefully they'll brighten up his day. Pretty much everything's going except for my bed, my "toys" (for those of you that know me, you know what I'm talking about) and some keepsakes... everything else MUST go.

This week I'm off to a class in Pahrump, NV. I'll be testing how it feels to sleep in my truck, either in the back seat or the bed of the truck... ah memories of the days of working for Marriott will for sure keep me awake. After coming back from my class I'll wrap up whatever's left... I'll be leaving early on the 18th. My driving plan looks like this:

-Tucson, AZ
-Las Cruces, NM / El Paso, TX
-San Antonio, TX
-Baton Rouge, LA / New Orleans, LA
-Jacksonville, FL
-Charlotte, NC
-Virginia Beach, VA
-Washington, D.C.
-Princeton, NJ

I'm looking to average 600 miles per day but I may spend a couple of days per link. Gotta watch the sunrise in Florida, have me a po'boy somewhere in Lousiana... you get the idea. It's not a race folks!

After spending sometime in Jersey with my bro, we'll make the jump across... landing in London. Next? The chunnel, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Cadiz, Rabat ... ahh Casablanca... across northern Africa to Tunis, hoping on the ferry to Palermo. Then it's all Italy, the Amalfi coast, Rome, Venice. I've got some friends in the Deustcheland so I gotta stop by! Then it gets really interesting. Since I'm halfway there I tought of El Cairo but there's a lot in between, I'm thinking of going down the eastern european coast and hitting Greece and then sailing across to Egypt and then getting to the Holy land... whew!!! It looks like a lot of ground to cover... and IT IS!! I'm excited!

Got no set dates, no reservations, no lonely planet guides... heck maybe even no laptop!

Cheers,
Ben