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So what have I been doing for the last three months

June 20, 2006 by Jon Brown Leave a Comment

I haven’t posted in three months, actually the truth is I just backdated the first post to mark the beginning of my year off, but I had intended to start blogging that day and obviously haven’t… So this one post is going to cover everything that’s been going on the last three months… sort of.

First I have been trying to sell my home. In the five years I’ve owned it it’s nearly doubled in value and I decided it would be better and simpler to sell it than try to deal with leasing it out while traveling. I’d always planned on holding onto it forever and leasing it, but the realities of leasing and managing it while overseas convinced my otherwise, besides it’s not a “bad” time to sell a home. Of course with it having been on the market for 4 months I’m now thinking again about leasing it and wish I had gotten it on the market a month earlier…

Second I have done some of the things I’d planned for my first couple months off. Lots of relaxing, a significant amount of time at my family’s cabin in Idyllwild, and moving everything I own out of the condo. The highlight was certainly the week in Vail the last week of March, more on that some other time perhaps.

Finally, my travel plans are firming up, a little. I’ll head out of Southern California next week and slowly make my way up the coast to San Francisco where I’ll visit with friends around the time of the 4th of July. From there I head to Colorado, probably via Yosemite, where I’ll visit for a week or two with family and friends and get to Pennsylvania early in August. I’ll spend most of August around there and in October will drive through the NE to visit friends along the way with the turnaround point being Quebec City. I’ll head back to the outskirts of Philadelphia where in late November or early December I’ll be leaving my dog with my friends before flying to Asia with one little backpack and a whole lot of dreams.

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Hello world!

March 17, 2006 by Jon Brown 1 Comment

It's a bit intimidating to write one's first ever blog entry 😎

I guess I'll start with an introduction and my goals so any readers might know what to expect here.

My name is Jon I am 33 years old and voluntarily left my job on a year's leave of absence to travel and reevaluate what I was doing and want to be doing with my life. I'm not big on definitive plans and commitments, so the agenda for the coming year is a couple months in Southern California, a couple months crossing the US with my dog and then 6 months or more in south and east Asia.

Along the way I expect to reconnect with myself and to reawaken parts of myself that have withered over the last ten years. This blog will serve as my complete and total journal for the next year. I have another blog which I'll be keep specifically for my travels which will really just cover what I'm doing and where, rather than all the introspective journaling I expect here… If you read this, wordpress blog, you'll get everything, the travelpod blog is really just a sanitized and simplified version of anything you'll find here. This is my life blog, welcome…

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