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Weekend Getaway

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

I am tired.

I am sad.

I haven’t dreamt much lately, and what little I do, escapes me again.

“You’re a traveler,” Surfer dude said towards the end. “Stop working so hard on what you are doing here in Vancouver. Go away, try it in a new place.”

“A road trip?” I asked. “I went on one already a few weeks ago.”

“You went with a friend,” he corrected me. “Go on your own.”

I contemplated this at work on Friday.

And within minutes of closing down, I took the first bus I could board and headed off.

Redeeming days

Monday, November 12th, 2007

I chuckled as I looked up at the roof.

The van was rocking to and fro, and the million pitter-patterings of raindrops echoed through the metal shell that housed us. The cold air made itself known to us, or any part of us that stuck outside our sleeping bags.

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A note from last year

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
A note I found today, from my time in Cambodia.