Back in prehistoric times, (before the Interweb) Claudia and I took two very different trips: a "traditional" one to the UK which we recorded in the traditional way, in a scrap book, and the other to Corsica where I discovered the value of writing down my thoughts observations and impressions. Nearly ten years flew by before the next trip again in the UK, where we attempted a technological revolution: posting our status online, if not daily, then regularly. The rest, as they say, is history.

Eventually, those early trips will be here too. But for now I'm having a hard enough time keeping up with the present.

The GR20 trail across the rugged mountains of Corsica turns out to be one of the toughest in Europe. Fortunately, we did not know that until afterwards. Even more fortunately, we only planned to complete the first half.

This is the first trip I attempted to keep a journal for. Originally "published" in a hard-copy print run of two copies, the source file was lost but apparently carried forward through the dusty backrooms of countless hard drives until it miraculously surfaced in a random search 20 years later.

The Coast-To-Coast walk was the first trip recorded directly to the Web. In fact, in its first incantation, it was uploaded in real time during the trip, so that family and friends back home could track us as we went.

My brother Nick has been organizing a Spring Walk for a few friends for a number of years. Often our brother Chris joins them, and lately Adam has also done a couple. This was my first. The location varies but the format is the same: two days walking with a pub destination noon and night. This year was the Cotswalds. 'Nuff said.

In October 2005 Wayne and I celebrated our 50th birthdays with the first major trip in a decade. I had hit my second continent (California) in my mid-20's so there's a symmetry to hitting the third 25 years later. However, we're resolved to quicken the pace a little, because we don't have the required extra 100 years to cover the last four.

Fingers crossed, touch wood, all other things being equal, coming to a screen near you in the fall of 2010. We're booked to leave September 24. You too could sign up!

A brief encounter of the best kind: two days prepended to a business trip; with two colleagues and the only connection between the three being a shared sense that "it seemed a good idea at the time" but which exceeded all our expectations.

The fourth continent, the third world. A once in a lifetime opportunity to experience village life, hosted by Alexis's Peace Corp counterpart in his village with no power and no running water. As one of the more stable countries in Africa, it was also an opportunity to travel widely and freely in the search of big game, birds, birds, birds, and of course countless other adventures along the way.