I never did write that Best Of blog, but I'm actually writing a travel memoir about this right now - covid has been a big help with all the extra free time. I'm in El Salvador in the book, almost to Honduras. The main theme is about these great Mesoamerican civilizations and ruins in our backyard that they barely teach us about in school in the US. I've hired Ed Barnhart, a renowned expert PhD in ancient American cultures as a fact-checker and consultant.
As soon as I get the first draft done I'm going to put the wheels in motion to sell my condo and become a semi-retired nomad for a while. I might still pick up some programming work remotely, maybe play some poker for money along the way, and maybe the book actually sells - which would be amazing. I don't want to completely retire, but I don't want a 9-5 again. I always gain 30 lbs. every time I get a new job, then spend years trying to lose it.
My goal is to do as much of the world as I possibly can in my FJ Cruiser - probably starting up with South America, then ship from Chile to NZ/Australia, then Asia and work my way over to Africa (you could actually safely go down one side of Africa and back up the other until Ethiopia decided to have a civil war), then finally Europe and come back and do a victory lap around the US and Canada. But covid may change the order of things
I plan to write a book about each section and I will keep up the blog as a my journal basically. In a dream scenario the books actually sell some and fund the trip.
Here's the cover so far. I'll probably tweak it some but I like it. It's based loosely on the Simpsons episode where Homer eats the insanity pepper.
