Hello 2009.

Another busy and travel filled year has come and gone. Saying yes to opportunities took me for quite the ride in 08. Looking back I have really stayed true to my now 3 year old manifesto. This past year I have:

- ate fish tacos on Laguna Beach
- Enjoyed Ottawa's Byward's Market
- crossed the arctic circle thrice
- left my liver at a music festival in Northern Washington state
- saw hoover dam...but didn't take the dam tour.
- Went to a rodeo in Grand Prairie and a Stampede in Calgary
- acted 8 years old again at the Drumheller dino museum
- drank wine at a Nappa Valley vineyard
- flew my brothers plane
- gained a roomie
- crossed the continent at least twice
- started another band
- went off roading in the Mojave desert
- saw old faithful and thought, "meh."
- saw the Raptors, saw the timberwolves, saw the Senators, and saw the Oilers all loose on home court/ice.
- saw some gators in a Florida swamp.
- Went San Fran...twice.
- Escaped the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake city unconverted.
- Ate crepes in Montreal
- drove a porche
- had countless trips to Calgary...blurry, blurry Calgary.
- Went hiking in Kolob Canyon
- spent too much, drank too much, ate too much in Vegas...on 2 separate trips.
- Saw the San Diego zoo
- put over 35,000 km on a new Jeep Cherokee
- rode a train from Montreal to Toronto
- walked the overpriced sky walk
- Cruised sunset strip, strolled Venice beach

and...AND...

- I SAW RADIOHEAD LIVE. I still smile about that one.

Now it seems that around this time of year (over the past few years) I have said the same thing; I can not see myself traveling as much as I have the previous year. Every year I say that. Every year I prove myself wrong. So this year I am making no such claim. Even though financially I should not travel as much as I did last year or the year before and even though "times they are a tough"...I will make no such claim. I will however say that 2009 will be a different year for me. There could be a lot of changes in 2009. Could 2009 be the year where I say “yes” less? In 2009 is “no” the new “yes?”

Well...No.

Take that however you want.