A few people have asked me why I haven’t posted for almost an entire week. Well, there is the small matter of work, which is stacking up everyday and things are busy right now, and will remain busy for quite some time.
I am also training for this damn half-marathon in Prague in a couple of weeks time. Running every night of the week except Mondays and Thursday when I go to the gym. On Sunday I ran for an hour and a half in the cold, dark, miserable rain. The next day my knees felt like they had been beaten with a baseball bat. Did a gym session last night and thankfully they feel alright today. The primary reason I am doing all this running is because 2 years ago I had a knee operation in India and I now want to prove to myself that it is fully healed. A moot point after this weekend.
I’m also in the midst of arranging my plans for the round-the world-in-14 days trip. London to Ballito for The Boats wedding, then onto Melbourne for ANZAC day Collingwood v Essendon game at the 100,000 seater MCG and then the small matter of Trumans wedding, the primary reason for the entire trip actually. I’m looking forward to it, I really enjoyed my trip to Australia back in 2004 but I never made it down to Melbourne.
After Australia I’m off to Los Angeles. I’ll be in LA for about 3 days, I’m hiring a convertible ford mustang and hopefully going down to Orange County and doing a bit of site seeing and beach bumming.
The primary reason for hiring the car is to get to Las Vegas. The biggest boxing match in Vegas history will be fought on the 5th May and I have tickets. A few mates are flying in from London to meet up with me and although their budget extends to the Bellagio mine will only cover something a little less extravagant, although I still want to stay on the Strip.
After the fight I drive back to LA and fly onwards to Dallas for business.
I am also in the process of planning my trip to Paris for the world cup in Sep/Oct. At the moment I’m thinking along the lines of an apartment and a minibus tour for 8 of us with the possibility of squeezing in the Belgian F1 Grand Prix after the England game.
So blogging has taken a back seat recently, c’est la vie!
PS: Because the Darester has decided that his wedding is formal and I now have to drag my Tuxedo around the world for a single day in Melbourne, I am thinking of making the Tux my round-the-world theme. I might wear it in SA to the Boats wedding, then I’ll wear it at the MCG in Melbourne, then at Tru’s wedding, then at a baseball game in LA and finally the boxing match in Vegas.
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7 March, 2007 at 9:13 am
Kevin Cadman
Jesus H dude. That’s one hell of a lifestyle. What the hell do you do that you can afford such crazy trips?!
7 March, 2007 at 11:58 am
David
Kev, running is free, I have scaled back my normally busy social life in order to get all this done.
On top of this I have to get back to SA this year for my sisters wedding and I’m going to spend a lot of time in Dallas and Chicago on business.
I work in London, everything is possible with a few pounds in your pocket and a good imagination!
7 March, 2007 at 12:43 pm
truman
Your wedding invitation went out in the post yesterday. Not long to go now! Don’t worry about the tux, we can sort that out at this end when you arrive. However, make sure you do pack your golf shoes!!
7 March, 2007 at 12:56 pm
6000
“a few pounds in your pocket”?!?
“a few”? Ja. Right.
7 March, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Jen
Well done for all that training, can’t be comfortable running in the dust and stench trail left by the man/machine Andersen