After about six months of planning, the big trip is here.

Tomorrow morning we are getting up far too early and heading out for a four week tour to explore the roads between Toronto and Anchorage. Longer if we see any interesting roads, like maybe this one:


We're bringing the cutest teeny tiny laptop with us to keep in touch as we go; seems even campgrounds in the far north offer free wifi these days. The cutest teeny tiny laptop has been a bit of a PITA for me - I'm just not that much of a geek where I find hours of researching Linux hacks and script tweaks all that entertaining, just so I can get the damn thing to do just the basics of what I want. I now know more about sudo bash and debian thingamabobs that I really care to, but it's all set and running with what we need.

If you're at all interested, you can follow our travels here (there's a link above as well).

Alas, this poor blog will be left languishing over the next four weeks. I could have spent another few hours trying to get a windows emulator to work on Linux so I could install Full Tilt and play poker. As Joanada would say, "yeah.....no". Vacations are supposed to be getaways from the normal everyday routine, and I am greatly looking forward to the break from the poker routine. Which has become far too normal and everyday right now.

Not to say I won't be playing any poker during my travels; Joanada may be getting a home game together, combining my family and hers, when we hit Calgary on Thursday-ish. And how could I not play poker at a place called Diamond Tooth Gertie's Gambling Hall in Dawson City, Yukon?

Oh, someone asked me if the Friday Night Donkaments will continue in my absence....hellz yeah! the lovely and talented Joanada will be taking over as hostess while I'm gone, which really just means that she has no chance of cashing. At all.

See y'all on the other side! Rubber side down, shiney side up!