And we are gone (or will soon be)

By the time you read this Spectra and I will be gone. Or not quite yet. I can't be sure when you're looking at this. We’re been staying at my mom’s house in Eden Prairie until we depart on Thanksgiving for a month long trek that will end the first week of January in Krung Teep (aka Bangkok). That trek will include stays of various durations in Los Angeles, Tijuana (if Spectra finally relents to my begging), Tokyo, Singapore, and various locales along the Bay of Thailand. Then we’ll live in Thailand for 6 months where Spectra will work with Ashoka Fellows and I’ll do, uh, some, um, stuff to be determined later. After that the plan is to make a month-long return trek through a variety of countries on our way back to Minneapolis.

My intention is to chronicle these 8-ish months through blog posts, podcasts, and the occasional picture all of which will either reside on this blog or be accessible through it. In my mind that will happen at regular intervals, like multiple times a week, but my intentions and reality don’t always align so the reality is we’ll see. You might now be thinking something like, “Come on, man, you want me to routinely check a blog that may or may not be regularly updated? What is this? The 2000’s or Grantland content covering the sports I care about? I’m not doing that.” In order to forestall or at least mitigate variations of that thought I will actively use Facebook for the first time in my life to alert people of new stuff. If we aren’t connected on Facebook you can find me at facebook.com/sawyer.blur or Spectra at facebook.com/spectra.myers.

At a minimum I should have more time than I have for the last month* so there will be more than there has been of late. I think. I’d say “no promises” but I’ve all but told a whole host of people “I promise I’ll do this,” no, wait… I’ve definitely said that and even if I didn’t I implied it. This will happen, inshallah.**

Until the near-ish future, Sawyer and, in absentia, Spectra


*I foolishly thought my final month here would include lots of free time to do things like get caught up on podcasts and boosting my tutoring time. The paucity of new podcasts and a dip in some grades in various high schools in the metro tell you how that went.

**A tiny shout-out to my East African people! Keep in mind the content may occasionally veer into the territory of harram. I can’t help it; I love singing pop songs too dang much. You’ve been warned. Again. Stick that in your big pocket, Sarat.