Washington, DC
Hi, I'm Tito.
After almost four years of living in our nation's capital, I've decided it's time to move along and see what new adventures there are to be had. I have no set destination, well okay I have some ideas, but the gist of it is to head west, take in as much of the country as possible, and eventually see the Pacific Ocean, doubling the number of oceans near which I've pondered. So for the next few weeks I'll be posting updates as I move along. I won't be able to post every day, but I'll do my best to keep you updated.
Some of you may want some explanation as to what's causing me to do this. That I'm quitting a stable job with great co-workers, leaving some extremely good friends, and flinging myself headlong into uncertainty probably has more than a few people scratching their heads. Well, I'm not really sure what to tell you. Maybe I don't know where I want to be in life right now, but I know when I need to keep looking...and that turns out to be pretty important. Plus there's nothing wrong about wanting to reinvent yourself when things don't quite feel right. When you're all said and done, you could count the number of hours you had in this amazing world. Don't cheat yourself out of any of it.
I should piont out that I'm not alone in this crazy quest. My unwilling companion and crotchety sidekick is the Waffle, a 1990 Honda Accord with 240,000 miles, an intermittant charging system, a suspect speed indicator switch, no muffler, and a recently developed idle problem in prolonged stop and go traffic.
All in all, I'd say we're pretty much ready to go!
At this point I've just about finished packing my things. It's been a challenge but I think everything I really want to keep will actually fit into the Waffle. Adding to the challenge, as if cramming your life into a 2-dr import isn't tough enough, I have a lot of instruments (guitars, basses, banjo...) but these will be the first things loaded; everything else is gravy. Next on the to-do list is deciding on an approximate route across this great country called Not Canada or Mexico.
