From The Mountaintop
It’s high time that I dusted off the old blogging shoes and got my travel blog up and running, since I’m already in California and technically my trip around the world—beginning and ending in Chicago—has already begun. However, I don’t actually head overseas until I depart SFO for CHC on March 13th. Until then, I will be bouncing around between the Bay Area, Vancouver and Tahoe.
So, for the moment I’m in Kentfield, CA, blogging from the mountaintop, making final preparations for the real adventure to begin and tidying up loose ends. And let me tell you: when you’re handing off day-to-day management of your company while making final preparations to hit 7+ countries in 4 months, there are tons of loose ends. Some of them are fun/interesting, e.g. rounding out my wardrobe and supplies at REI. Many others are not so much fun, e.g. getting my final crazy-expensive Japanese encephalitis immunization, paying bills, and ESPECIALLY preparing my 2009 personal and business income taxes.
I was hoping to go camping this weekend, up in Humboldt, but instead I’ll be staying in Marin to take care of business. Fortunately, this means I won’t be spending any money on gas for 12 hours of driving and a camping permit, which is great. I spent too much money while my buddy Colin was out here; I really need to tighten the old purse strings and keep myself on-budget so that I don’t run out of money somewhere in Africa. I expect the next few days to be filled with a lot of (a) not driving (b) hiking (c) doing taxes and (d) tuna melts.
