Let's hit the road!

Okay, it's November. The days are shorter and the darkness is engulfing everything. It's no shock that by 9:00 pm it's pitch black out, but you can't see a thing at 5:30 anymore! Soon the snow will hit and we'll all be going stir crazy. There is only one surefire solution to the growing anxiety and stress of the season.

Escape!

My good buddy and pal Horatio Faust and I are planning a road trip in my trusty automobile, a Cabrio nobly named Rocinante. Where we will travel, we do not know, but it is not the destination that makes the voyage. You see the destination is only a section of the greater whole. It is a neccessity, but it should represent equal value with the rest of the trip.

When planning a road trip I am of the opinion that it should have a very loose itinerary. Set nothing in stone and leave pretty much everything up for debate and make it easy to change at the drop of a hat. If you plan on going to Toronto and you meet someone suggesting a side trip to New York instead, why say no to an impromptu adventure?

It's time that I put my desires to rest and act upon them. Reading On the Road, The Catcher in the Rye, Death in the Afternoon, Tropic of Cancer among other books has driven me nearly mad with curiosity and an inherent need to see more of the world than I have. The solution is to simply do it.

So Horatio and I will embark on a journey, hopefully to last a week. We do not know exactly where the road will take us but it will whisper the direction into our ears and our minds as the days go by. The road is life dear travelers, let us discover it together.