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Backpack through Asia.
 
 
    Australians use the term “walkabout” to refer to the aboriginal custom where a man breaks from work in white society and walks in solitude through remote areas for an extended period of time. Walkabouts represent a return to a traditional way of life for the Aborigine and often last several months. I have planned a five-month solo trip through China, Japan and Southeast Asia beginning in the fall of 2002. Wrong continent, but I suppose you could very well say that I’m going on a walkabout through Asia. My hiatus from western civilization will take me from the mountains of Tibet to the beaches of Bali.

When I tell people about my little peripatetic sojourn, I get a strange mix of reactions, from envy and to genuine concern. “You’re nuts,” are usually the first words I hear. Although I’m disinclined to believe that this concern could really be over my mental well-being, I’ll admit that I may likely succumb to a wee bit of psychosis in five months of solo travel... maybe come back a bit more nuts than I left.

So, for worried friends and family, I have promised to keep a regularly published travelogue, where all can bare witness to one man’s psychological decent into darkness.

[July 2002]

  
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