I've collected all necessary visas and tickets, meticulously packed my clothes and equipment in ziploc bags and rubber bands, checked and rechecked to make sure my toiletries items will not burst due to decreased pressures in the airplane, and scrutinized every website and guidebook for last minute tips and and tidbits I forgot, all with the zeal of one who has dreamed of this very moment for way too long. I need to get on that plane and go. Now. I don't mean to sound obnoxious, but let's get this show on the road! Motherland here I come!



I've been very fortunate in my life to have two loving parents who have been able to spoil and privilege me with a passion for travel. As most of you reading probably know, my Dad works for Delta Airlines, and as a result we went on some pretty sweet vacations growing up.  

Initially I thought I would set out alone for solitary enlightenment, but I soon realized that to do so would risk the best thing going in my life these days. Not wanting to leave behind any of my favorite travel buddies, I later thought it might be cool to try traveling with Nelle, my Dad, and my best friend from home, Eric Bausewein in different installments.

Months of hemming, hawing, thinking, reconsidering, stressing, and brainstorming later, we arrived at the trip's most recent (and final) permutation: Nelle and I are traveling together indefinitely and my Dad, Walt Prescott, is joining us during the first month of the trip during the journey across Siberia to Mongolia and China.

No worries, of course, that I will fall off the face of the earth and never be heard from again. As detailed on the contact page I will be hopefully be regularly available via email, this website, and internet chat and phone.

Anyway, I am ready to go out and think and do and be for myself. My life on my back, the world at my feet, and a beautiful woman at my side. How could it get any better than this? I just took my last glorious 45 minute shower for the next 12 months, and had my final drink of true 2% milk for breakfast. I am ready.

...Go!