Welcome, friends and family. I have decided that the easiest way to keep you posted on this enormous change in my life, and the road-trip adventure that is its prelude, is to simply have a public journal website for you to check in with daily. (Hopefully, I will be able to access the internet daily on this journey.) I am starting this Wednesday, June 11, 2003, a week before I hit the road. Tomorrow, I leave for Vegas. I return Sunday. I believe Vegas might be a good test-subject for my initial blogs...enjoy!