Cold Mornings Warm afternoons and Cartoons

The sting of the cold BC air is evident as you get up at 7:30 and drive to work. Both my brother and myself are faced with the same issue most mornings as we drive our bikes to or from work. At this time there is a light frost on the car windows in the mornings, and I am reminded that the only reason I am spared the scraping of the windows, is because I am riding the motorcycle. The comfort in that fact is short lived with the realization that I have yet to buy gloves.

On a more positive note, I am reviewing my trip plans, and still intend to take a trip regardless if I have to hitch or not. So stay tuned.

Oh, and since do not have a related image to upload, I will upload a funny comic from my favorite strip 'get Fuzzy'. To those who know about my crazy custom voodoo doll idea, i think you will get a kick out of this.

On a day like today

Oh I am telling you, on a day like today it would be great to get on the bike and make a run for the border. Its nice out, a bit crisp, very few clouds and sunny. It would be easy to do....hmm... Second thought, i dont think work would be too happy about me booking it. And also, I need to get settled and figure some things out. All this change is not comming easy, but in the end I am very sure it will pay off.
On a happy note, I am sleeping in my old bed courtesy of my parents *thanks* , and my bro has been kind enough to change me rent so that I can have a place to eat and sleep while I get my bags packed for the coolest trip ever.
It is looking like the dirty dog plan is going to be it. I have to figure out how to get all of my gear, enough appropriate food, and clothes into my backpack so that I can travel lightly and carefully on what I hope is less than 7$ a day.
More to come soon...

Things Change....

As usual my life is always a mix of good and bad. Things have changed for me in recent days, and in some good ways and in some bad. I am still making plans for the trip though. My brother is encouraging me to go to australia in january if i can afford the trip by then, but I have no idea how I am going to get 1500$ together for a round trip ticket. the idea of camping and backpacking sounds like a great idea. But I suspect that It would be a bit on the expensive side. Mind you, there are very few people I know who have flown to australia.

Well, there is one person I know, but he lied on a job application, couldnt do his job, spent two weeks on the beach before they revoked his work visa before they booted him in the rear and jettisoned him back home. Mind you he has become a bit of an urban myth as of late.

A cold turn south?

Well, the weather has turned cold and doesnt look like its going to let up much. I have two options now after plan (A) which was to ride the inexpensive KLR650 across canada, now it appears (B) get a bus ticket and head east, or (C) hitchhike east and see where I can get or (D) drive south, and see if I can outrun the snow.

The odds are against me though. It appears that at this point, I am facing having almost 0$ for the trip. I am hoping that my last pay cheque will be able to finance this endeavour. I really do not want to put this off until next year, as I have a number of things to do between now and then, and as we all know 'tomorrow' never seems to come when you negotiate with yourself enough.