After too long at uni (7 years) and much too long in full time work (any amount of time), I've decided to give it all in. So I'm packing up my bodyboard, my lawn bowls and my ukulele, throwing them in my sweet yellow 1980 Toyota Hiace and driving until I'm not sure when.
The story of how I came to travel around the country for an indefinite amount of time isn't that exciting. Basically I just got bored. I tend to get bored very easily, you see. And so to make sure I don't get bored on my mighty journey I decided I needed a mission. Or, more accurately, a whole series of missions.
And this is where the van list comes in. Much like a bucket list (google it, wikipedia it, or watch the overwrought movie starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson), the van list is basically just a list of stuff that I want to do before I die. Or in this case, before I leave the van. Except that instead of being bold, ambitious, self-improvement type goals (learn another language, publish a novel etc.) mine are largely trivial, small-minded and pointless.
But they're all things that I haven't done before, and have always wanted to. Well, not really, but they're all things that I came up with over the last few months when I was bored or drunk. The list is something of an organic creature though, so no doubt it will be added to along the way. Feel free to suggest anything at all that you think I should be getting up to, no matter how small or nonsensical. Being nonsensical is really what this trip's all about.
And this little site is where I'll be talking about my attempts to cross things off the list. I've got no idea how regularly I'll be posting updates - it will likely rest on how I go with the list, and how much time I spend in and around civilisation. But I'll also be throwing up tales of my random adventures and maybe even a photo or two, so keep reading up and leave a comment or two pointing out how well I'm doing at wasting my life.
Cheers for now,
christo
