I am calling this blog Walk About 2007 but it well may last until 2008, 2009, or ?? Many things have propelled me onto the road, not the least of which is the responsibility of the United States for so much misery and unrest in the world. But also, because it is time to check in and see how others are faring; because I still have some of my brain cells firing and wake up each morning knowing a) who I am and b) where I am; and niggling in the back of my mind is the thought that the world may be changing very quickly now and the price of oil and the cost of the large carbon footprint of jet flights may well preclude someone as genteely poor as myself from travelling much in the future.
My journey has taken me to Costa Rica, NY & MA in the US, Ireland, and Spain with my main objective boarding the Trans-Siberian train bound for Mongolia in early May. Other stops along the way may be Vilnius, Lithuania and St. Petersburg, and after Mongolia?? Maybe Beijing, sneaking in just before the chaos that is the Olympics, down to Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Laos, or through the ´Stans overland to Istanbul. The trail fades out a bit at this point but I know that it is there!
And so I have set out. The journey began last March 6, 2007 in Costa Rica.
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