Travel Plans

Trip Plans: South America Tickets Purchased

July 21, 2011

Time flies; we hope to.

Purchased our tickets for South America this morning.

Seems like just a blink since sending off the initial inquiry about ticket packages.
That was February. This is July.

Many ping-ponging emails later (including helpful hand-holding replies from our incredibly kind agent, several late night discussions, a few quiet months weathering bumps in the road, and a release of hard-earned, well-saved dollars), we punched the purchase button this morning.

Since we’re leaving the continent by ship, we chose not to include South America in our potential Round The World ticket. Too many stipulations regarding required transatlantic flights. And too many north/south miles that we’d rather use on eastern travels.

So, now we know: Farewell to Portland on January 5th, 2012.

Coffee in the concourse?

After all the sacrifice to get to that boarding gate, it’ll be time to splurge.

For now, five and a half more months of earning, saving, praying, and planning.

Travel Plans

Six Months Out: Plans for Leaving Town

July 6, 2011

July 6th, 2011.

Open before us: two guide books, a spiral bound journal and hand drawn calendar covered in scrawled notes, several browser tabs, and one all-important email: the “yes, please, let’s proceed” message to the woman helping us with our LAN South America Airpass booking.

Deep breath.

A prayer.

Click send.

Digital footfalls toward the starting line.

Choosing dates feels like a game of roulette.

“We make our plans, but He directs our steps.”

The clock ticks. If this booking proves true, we’ll be arriving in Peru six months from today.

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Belief & Technique for Modern Prose

May 20, 2011

Jack Kerouac, “Belief & Technique for Modern Prose”

1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time

15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You’re a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

Travel Plans

Passing Time & Dreaming Dreams

March 28, 2011

Patagonia Time Lapse Video from Adam Colton on Vimeo.

If the clouds are full of rain, they will empty themselves on the earth
And whether a tree falls to the south or to the north
The tree will lie wherever it falls

He who watches the wind will not sow
And he who observes the clouds will not reap

Just as you do not know the path of the wind
Or how the bones form in the womb of a pregnant woman
So you do not know the work of God who makes everything

Sow your seed in the morning
And do not stop working until the evening
For you do not know which activity will succeed
Whether this one or that one
Or whether both will prosper equally

Light is sweet
And it is pleasant for a person to see the sun

Ecclesiastes 11:3-7

Travel Plans

Setting Sail…Fifteen Months Out from a Transatlantic Voyage

December 30, 2010

Years of scheming, and today we set the first critical date on the calendar. No, not the Depart-From-Home date. The Step-Foot-Onto-A-Ship date.

March 21, 2012.

Transatlantic crossing from Brazil to Spain.

Dark (dirt-cheap / relatively speaking) inside cabin. Wide open ocean.

We still don’t know when we’ll actually leave the state… But one way or another, we’ll be getting ourselves to S. America by the Vernal Equinox.