Leaving on a jet plane.

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.

-- Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star


One of my colleagues finished up at work today to go travelling for a few months.

She is beginning in Russia, hence the funny hat which is so big it could suffocate you.

I wonder how many postcards she'll send us over the next seven months of all the places she plans on visiting?!

Me, jealous? Never ...