Passport photos are never flattering...

Well, today is the last day I will spend in Canada for some time. Sleep is something I will cherish when I am free of any emotion. So, for now... I will lead y'all in to the adventure I am about to begin.

If you have Google Earth on your computer... then 52°20'4.49"N Latitude and 35°22'25.22"E Longitude are the coordinates of where I will be close to.

So, here is what I know for now. I am flying to Vancouver 11:00ish Feb.13th. I will be fashionably late for the cavity search and then proceed to the plane departing from Kelowna. The plan is that I arrive in Vancouver around noon. From there, I know this... I will be flying to Frankfurt, Germany... hopefully with a passport. Gotta pick that up in Vancouver with my visa. I would expect it to be at the airport with my traveling co-worker. If not, then I fly home and veg out and watch hockey.(That would never happen. Not without the massive scene in the airport and the deranged man being hauled away on the 6:00 news. That would be me)

Then, we wait in Frankfurt for our connecting flight to Moscow. Some point after we arrive in Moscow there will be a train ride south. I can't wait to use the train washroom. I have heard how marvelous it is (Picture to follow)

Eventually we will plane, train and automobile our way to the coordinates as above and realize we are half way round the world. Shortly thereafter, I will shower all the stranger hair and drool from the commute off of my shoulders and arms and possibly even unload all my shite.

I am planning on having just enough stuff with me. Tools, clothes and a backpack full of entertainment electronics, toilet paper, sacrificial toilet socks (for when I run out of TP), 3 pairs of 8-day underwear (in case luggage goes to Tanzania), a bag of white powder to amuse the border people, the anarchist cookbook for light reading and my "How to fly 767's for Dummies" book. Unfortunately for me, my sense of humour will be packed away until I am in comfortable space. I will probably gawk like a retard with Sesame Street overload at all the sites and invariably miss something.

Only time will tell, I guess.

To all that are going to keep up with me, I will do my best at updating this regularly.