Here's the plan

Sometime last week, I'm not sure exactly what day, I took the decision to travel the world. I guess this will mean quitting my job, selling all my objects and buying a one-way ticket to a far-away country. Probably Thailand. No, Australia. Actually it might have to be Germany.

This isn't a spur of the moment thing; I've spent over 34 years meandering towards this point in my life. 

So there's the headline. My 'mission statement' if you like that sort of bullshit. I've got a vague framework bouncing around my head and this will start to take shape in the coming weeks, like a Lego spaceship. I fancy myself as a writer you see, and I'm not going to let the handicap of no experience, little education and careless approach to proof reading spoil it for me. These may, however, spoil it for you, dear reader.

Yes there are a couple of travel blogs out there already, over ten in fact. This is no surprise. In the Venn diagram of travellers and would-be writers of this world there was bound to be some overlap. I'm not actually expecting anyone to find, let alone read, this blog and I'm happy with that because I don't think I'm any good at it yet. I've been partly inspired by the stories of NeverEndingVoyage, 20-SomethingTravel and Ashley Cowie but I'm not banking on making any money out of this. Not at first.

Over the coming year or so I'll be posting regular updates, each more interesting and poetic than the last, journaling my preparation to travel around the globe. By the time I set off I imagine I'll be weaving such vivid tales in 400 words that National Geographic themselves will be there, contract in hand, to see me off.

There we have it; everything I do from here on in must propel me towards that goal. Every morning I have to ask myself, "What are you going to do today to achieve your dream?”

In the coming posts I'll fill in some back story about who the fuck I am, how the fuck I got here and why the fuck I'm doing this. I'll maybe post up some of my previous travel journals. I'll get some details of the intense savings plan I'll be working on. All this will be in the matey, talk-to-the-reader tone I've kicked off with, most will be funnier, and some might be insightful and reflective. There will be bad language.

So that's the plan and the first post of what should prove to be an award-winning blog and best-selling book. 

I put this motivational picture here as a thank you for reading.