This blog will be somewhat of a continuation of my last travel blog : might as well.... which traced a three month trip through Mexico and Belize that began almost a year ago. Since then, life has changed drastically, and I am now ready to return, not only to Mexico, but also to blogging about my travels.

I leave for Mexico on February 23rd and will stay for 6 weeks this time. Six weeks has come to seem like a short time to be travelling these days, allthough when I was working a full time job in Portland, it seemed like an impossible eternity. Either way, I hope this next journey will shed some light on to what I am going to do with my life over the next few years.

So, since I have some time before I get going, I will spend the next few entries trying to create a short and readable summary of the massive chaos, confusion and transition that have marked the last 7 months. To begin where the last blog left off......

When I returned to Portland after my last trip, my comfy little life there had allready begun its disassembly process. It was the middle of June and I was scheduled to return to Berlin, my hometown, to begin graduate school in September. Originally, my partner of 7 years, Rebecca, had planned to join me - we were going to get married and continue our cheery little domestic life. However, during the three months I was gone a lot of things changed for the both of us - and in the end she stayed in Portland, and we ended our relationship. This made the next 2 months which I spent in Portland, preparing for my move and saying goodbye to my life, pretty much a nightmare. From where I stand now it's hard to believe we made it through that time without tearing each other's heads off, but we somehow managed to be incredibly adult aout the whole thing and muddled our way through.

On September 2nd 2004, my cat Maya and I got on a plane and said hello to the next episode in our lives - living in Berlin for a while.