I love traveling. I love all parts of it. From the initial spark of an idea, to the research, discovery, planning, looking for deals, mapping out the route, gear shopping, packing, repacking, setting my out-of-office responder, heading to the airport with Vivien beside me in a cab, and finally the turn onto the runway, flaps out 15 degrees, the engines throttling up, rolling down the runway and wheels up – we’re off to somewhere new and nothing can stop us now! I think we all wish we could do it more often.
But for the past 6 months, and probably for a little while longer still, I haven’t had the chance to travel like I used to since I’ve been working on Tripline. Vivien and I have been on some great weekend trips, I’ve been back-and-forth to San Francisco with Rick a lot, and I was recently back in Boston for a high-school reunion, but nothing like the trips I used to take before.
So, here at Tripline, we’ve been living vicariously through all of you. One wandering couple that I’d like to mention is my friends Sejal and Darsh. They set out from Santa Monica in late April on a 6-month, 31,000 mile trip around the world. I had really hoped to have Tripline ready for their trip, but sometimes things take longer than you hope. Anyway, here’s their trip. It’s quite an adventure and still underway.
Makes me think we need some real-time updates.
-Byron