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A New Day!

I received a lot of email responses from my last travel story titled 'Home is where your heart is' and again I did respond to every one. Most of them ended with some sort of reference to crying. A job well done on my part then. It was very emotional arriving in Jadrtovac after such a long, hard, roller coaster ride of an adventure. When I finally settled in and the shock of being there started to fade I noticed that this was not my family. Indeed they acted the part but they were poorly made clones of my wife and daughter. I hadn't been gone so long as to not know the color of the woman who takes care of me and the daughter who physically torments me. These two aliens were brown and not the ivory white I vividly remembered back in Canada. Hmmmm? What's that big bright shiny ball of fire in the sky? Oh right it's the sun. Wow! Two months on the Adriatic and these two snow queens have turned into Tahitian beauties. I honestly haven't found a tan line between the...

Time Warp

After my last post titled 'Home is where your heart is' I had a big influx of emails sent to me from strangers and people I know very well. I have replied to each and everyone of them but I get the feeling that there is something that requires a little bit of explaining. My trip has been done for a long time and I am in Canada now (the current date is Feb 3, 2009)! I couldn't believe it when my good friend Benjamin Easterday called me up from Hollywood and asked me how I could have possibly got permission to travel for six months. We had talked many times in the last 6 months and I assumed he knew I was back. I guess not. I guess I was a little bit stingy with the time between stories and for that I owe everyone an apology. I have been busy behind the scenes with work, family, and trying to organize myself for another motorcycle travel adventure next summer. As well, I have changed the appearance of the blog and have added a few features that weren't here before. I...