December 2005

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• 2006 SE Asia

  Article #1: You Must Be Crazy

  12.31.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  When my wife Nazma and I told our friends, co-workers and relatives we were leaving our jobs to travel, we neatly divided them into two camps:
  Group A: “That’s great! I’m jealous.”
  Group B: “That’s insane. You must be crazy.”
  Group B mainly comprised our parents who, to be [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, Quixotic Notions, Vancouver

  Mass consumption

  12.28.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  Well, it’s confirmed: our first foray into something with a wider readership than our more indulgent blog-reading friends will be published this Saturday in the Vancouver Sun travel section. We found out this evening and, after Nazma stopped hyperventilating, she agreed it was a good thing after all, reluctant as she is with “sharing our [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, Quixotic Notions, Vancouver

  See you in the funny pages

  12.24.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  One other thing happened yesterday that locked us into a course-of-action of sorts: we got our picture taken for the Vancouver Sun. See, months ago, when we thought we were doing our big trip, I’d approached the Sun about writing a few articles for their Travel section. We seriously didn’t think they’d be interested, so [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, Quixotic Notions, Vancouver

  The redlined map v2.0 (with blue lines now)

  12.24.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  Now that Nazma’s off work we’ve actually had a chance to talk about the trip. When I live with something for a long time (for instance, the plans for this trip), my thinking tends to get stuck in a very defined groove. In this case, I had consigned our poor tootsies to some frosty temperatures [...]

• Quixotic Notions, Vancouver

  Ugly pink thing

  12.10.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  In a total 180 from my last post, I got an evite for a birthday party with this graphic attached. This has sparked some debate: if we assume that the blue thing is a bear, what exactly is the ugly pink thing?With entirely too much time on my hands, I’ve made some initial observations: 1. [...]

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Junkies for that feeling you get just before you board a plane, train, or automobile for somewhere other than here, we're seeing as much of the world as we can, staying one step ahead of the trifecta spectre (trispectre?) of security, progeny and mortgages.

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Project: Eggplant will track as much of that as we feel like putting fingers to keyboards. At times we'll get lazy and just take some purdy pictures. And sometimes it may sound like we're just moaning. In the end, if we don't write it with a smile on our faces, it doesn't get posted.

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