Sitting in San Fran

This post is kind of a warm-up for getting back into blogging for the trip through South America that will start at the end of November.

I'm currently in San Francisco for a couple of days, after being brought over here by Atlassian for their first AtlasCamp. Today Rob (my boss) and I did a quick drive-by tour of Silicon Valley, passing the Googleplex, 1 Infinite Loop (Apple), Oracle and a few other famous IT icons. We also stopped in at Stanford University. Very classy, very expensive. Rob took some photos, I'll see if we can get them on Flikr.

Even More Places I've Been

Now that the trip of Japan/Europe has concluded, here's the final map of Places I've Been:



create your own visited countries map

Now I must sleep.

More places I've been

My travels have added a few locations to my list. I'm not counting locations I've transited through - my criteria is that I must have left the airport for at least an hour.



create your own visited countries map.

Tokyo or Bust

Well, the first leg of the journey is over. After a long flight punctuated only by occasional food and two Japanese movies which I was not inclined to watch, Andrew and I arrived in one piece with all luggage intact. My friend Simon's instructions for getting to our hotel were flawless and in short order we were checked in and online.

So far we haven't seen much, although I enjoyed a nice beef+rice dish while catching up with Simon. We'll hopefully get some good pictures tomorrow. Until then, sionara.

Slow motion

Today, this blog has officially been re-christened as "David In Motion". Don't take this to mean that posts will be any more frequent, but at least it gives me somewhere to go with it.

While I'm here though, the whole Ethiopia/Somalia war seems to have resolved itself rather more quickly than I had expected. Although "resolved" is probably too strong a word. Here's hoping it doesn't turn into another Iraq-scale conflagration...