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Hi!

If you are reading this, you are an amazing person, because you know me well, and I know you well, and we still keep in touch, which is pretty amazing in itself considering our short time on this planet and who we decide are the great ones we want to be around in our lives.
And as a wanderin' warbler who might wander himself into some really warm and happy or really cold and dreary places in the universe, it would make me happy or happier to know that you might be thinking of me wherever you are, doing whatever you're doing at that given moment: hence the online travel journal.
I'll try to be good and update it if you're good and check up on me and make sure I do, or else please send camels after me in North Africa if I don't. You can comment on things throughout this site, subscribe to it and get automatic updates, check my trip map, and send me messages too (and you can always email me as well). To be truthful, I am also doing this site for myself, and I might write wacky things from time to time, not really expecting anybody else to really read it, which is(as you probably know) how I am anyways. OK here we go...

Quick update on what I've been doing this summer/fall: I stained the new deck at 9 Montvale, which took me awhile.

I went on a week bike trip just me to Ocean City, Maryland- so nice.

I was in Ponies Gone Wild 3 at Assateague Island, Ocean City:

Then I rode the Obamawagon through Indiana where I presented on a teacher panel> I did some canvassing in Cleveland, Ohio on my way to visited Tony Bernardo in Massachusetts.(You rock Tony Bernardo in your Hippie Palace). Check out funniness occurring:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baVjD3Gmpl0

I then visited New York(Hello Nathan Gilbert!), saw Jessica Sobin and Family at a rockin' N.Y. comedy club, and had a beer with Christiana Simon and her first dude.

After a long day being a voting line monitor at various polling stations in Philly handing out snacks, singing songs, and snaking lines, I finally got to party in the streets of Philadelphia with Andrew Ma and Annabelle Smith. I think I lost my voice to:

I say O, you say BAMA.... "O" "Bama!" "O" "Bama!"

After Obama won, the next day I felt as if I was on a hallucinogen : everything was literally brighter and more interesting. But the effects soon wore off, although I do have flash backs now and then when I realize he is the President of the United States of America - elect.

Trippy Right?

So now to the next stage. I am almost all packed, and I'm taking a small book bag because traveling light is best for sure. I have like eight flight reservations, all organized into plastic sheet holdy thingies. And a really small book with the 20 contacts on CouchSurfing.com I've made in the past two weeks. I'm selling the Warbler(Chevy Lumina) for $1,700.00 That's pretty good for driving it through scorching hot muddy dusty rocky sandy desert and 90,000 of American highways in three years huh? I'll miss it...kinda.

I'm excited.. I feel like I'm going to join the world citizenship club. I know I'll miss people though, especially you, and yes I mean you , but yeah we can keep in touch - if you want a postcard from anywhere, let me know and I'm on it. You can check out my trip map to see where I'll be when, and post comments on this page if you so desire. I think you can subscribe to this and it will update you when I update it. Ok then, thanks for reading and till next time!

Bye Bye 9 Montvale!

- me