Well, I’ve put off writing this all day as I didn’t really want to accept that it was over. And believe it or not, I don’t just mean the trip, I mean the blog too. A lot of people have asked me why I wrote it, and especially why I put so much time into it. I guess the simple answer is that I really enjoyed it, far more than I expected to. I enjoyed sitting down and describing what I’d done, where I’d been, adding a picture or 2, recording it for posterity but also gathering my thoughts at the time. This last post will hopefully put it all into context. The advent of wireless internet made a lot of it possible. I wrote in wireless-enabled bars, cafes, hotel rooms, and friend’s houses. Sometime I
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