THE ADVENTURE BEGINS!

Life is too short to leave things undone. In this day and age, I can't even begin to imagine being that guy who grows up, works himself to old age and dies without ever leaving his home town. I've already done some traveling in the past, but I have always dreamed of bigger. That's why, when things started going bad in my town, I decided to become The Adventurer. So what exactly does an adventurer do? Well, an adventurer must travel, and I mean travel far and wide around this amazing planet. That's what I intend to do from now on, and that is what this site will chronicle.

So back to "things going bad in my town" as I mentioned earlier. For nearly fifteen years I have worked in some facet of the entertainment industry. I worked on video games in Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas before ending up in sunny, Southern California to work in the TV and film industry. Earlier this year, the industry was hit hard by the Writer's Guild of America going on strike. A lot of people lost their jobs and some even packed their bags and headed for the hills. Now, the Screen Actors Guild has a contract coming to an end. There is talk of another strike or, at least, intentionally extended negotiations. All this has made it very difficult to get work. I saw the inevitable, and decided it was time to make a move.



Now I've been working online for some months, but with the high rent and outrageous cost of living in La La Land, there's no way I could sustain myself. It seemed I had two choices. I could go down in flames, or take my chances out there in the wide, wide world. I chose to take my chances, hop on a plane and head to South East Asia. With few exceptions, many places in Asia have a cost of living as low as 20% of what it might cost to live in Southern California. There I could conceivably sustain myself on my internet endeavors and have some real adventure to boot. Since I am doing my work in the wired, it shouldn't matter where in the world I am at any given time, as long as there's access. It would appear as though I can't lose.

The reality is that I don't know what's going to happen. This may all work out or I may end up becoming a rice farmer in some unknown village. Whatever happens, you'll read about it here. One thing that really did it for me was looking into the future. I realized that if I stay here, I know exactly what is going to happen... nothing. Nothing will change. That's not how I want to live my life. That's really not living at all. Pass or fail, good or bad, I'd rather go out there and give dreams a try. I say let their be surprises. I mean, if I knew everything that was going to happen, life wouldn't be an adventure!


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