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July 28, 2003

Shifting Summer Plans, and beyond

I've all-but 100% decided that I'm not going to go to Burning Man this year. There's a whole collection of pros and cons and factors which have led me to that decision, but I don't think it'd be terribly interesting if I detailed the whole decision-making process. Every version I envision would spiral into a long drawn-out thing. This year I was planning to do a campaign camp there, so that was the main value that I weighed on the "pro" side. Ultimately I decided that missing this year wouldn't be that much of a loss in that respect, and that the combined weight of what the trip would keep me from accomplishing here at home, plus a number of negative factors, outweighed the pros. I say all-but 100% decided because there's still a short period of time where divine intervention or outrageous fortune or something could shift the scales enough that I might go, maybe just for a few days (instead of the full week). I doubt it though.

Now that I've effectively decided not to go this year, a monstrous and daunting to-do list of Burning Man-related things floats conveniently away. In previous years that I've gone, BM has consumed as much as $2000, and the better part of both August and September timewise (in preparation, then re-assimilation). Remarkably, I'd say it was worth it all those times -- and I unreservedly encourage anyone who's thinking about going to do so if they can -- but there's still a big wave of relief associated with not having to deal with it this year.

I'm still surveying the new, simpler near-future that lays before me, but one shift will likely be that I'm going to try and hit the road in some form sooner. Not sooner than Burning Man, but sooner than I was going to do post-Burning Man. This will probably amount to a shorter trip (like to Southern California to meet with the South Park guys (if they're willing) perhaps, and back), to test out my motorhome-with-pets model, followed by a longer trip across the country and back. So far I'm thinking that longer trip will include stops in Colorado, to meet with friend and libertarian colleague Troy Dayton, and also Mark Richer, the owner of PeoplesForum.com's web hosting company Ableminds -- who, strangely enough, I have never met in person after 5 years of doing business together. I'll also be stopping in North Carolina, where I have a sister, a brother-in-law, and a niece and nephew that I haven't seen in too long. And I'll spend a while in Massachusetts, where I have a matching set of that list of relatives, plus my mother. (As well as friends in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and I think Connecticut.)

That's probably a sketch of the first leg right there, though I'm pretty flexible. The main objective of the trip is to get a good feel for living, working, and functioning effectively out of the motorhome that I intend to use as my "campaign bus" for the next year or two -- and to see what I need to do to really make the most of it and smooth out the bumps. I'll be glad to meet with some folks along the way, but I don't necessarily expect to be fully functional, and I'll be doing a lot of adjusting to the RV lifestyle.

After a while in New England, I'll head back to my house here, which I hope to keep residency at for the indefinite future. The shape of the trip back is wide open at this point, and depends on a multitude of factors -- how long I've been on the road by then, how well the west-east trip went, and lots of others.

This is all just starting to take its newly-adjusted shape, but I'm guessing/hoping that the first short test trip will be in September, and if that goes o.k., the cross-country test trip would be in late September or October, and the return leg would start right about when it starts feeling like winter in the Northeast -- November or so.

If all that goes well, I could do a full-bore campaign loop starting early next year, which would include helping with a few spring semester openings at some colleges, followed by haunting the 2004 primary states (and events) through spring.

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