up, up and away

i should be packing for my flight but i wanted to quickly kick this thing off as this could be construed as the first day of the adventure i'm hoping to document in this blog. like so many travel blogs, this will begin on the day of travel but unlike the others, this is likely to be the only flight for a while. i'm flying home. after six and a half years of globetrotting, i'm hereby making the commitment to plant some roots in sydney.

this isn't about 'settling down' after exorcising the travel bug - if anything, its about building a personal infrastructure that acknowledges and facilitates the pursuit of everything that matters to me - those i started out with and those i've accumulated along the way, including travel.

but like i said, no time to go into it now because my backpack won't pack itself (ok, i admit, matthew will). i'll be back with a mission statement, progress reports, reminiscences and general chit chat. i don't know who i'm writing this for but i hope you enjoy reading it.