A Journey Begins August 27, 2007

This is my fun-filled travel journal. Since I spend most of my time not on the road, I have been asked what I will write about between trips, and as any of you OCD types know, that is, of course, planning (and over-planning) the trips, and future places I want to go, how I make decisions, what I’ve seen, where my karma currently stands, how I keep a budget, and why I want to go certain places. I also make interesting day-trips and sometimes encounter wild adventures that I like to talk about.

Our next grande (with an ‘e’) trip is to the US Virgin Islands: St Thomas and St John. We might hit a British Virgin Island, too, while we’re down there. This trip started out “free” but has grown in cost enormously. Then the cost pared itself down (thank you, off season!) and has since grown moderately day by day. Since I tend to travel on a tight budget, but I won’t be caught dead in a hostel-like environment, I can really speak to the challenge of cash conservation. It’s one of my favorite subjects!

The future of this journal is wide-open.