So, I figure I will make this announcement officially – on a whim – through the internet.   I will be moving back to California (although Vancouver is an option) April 14th.  Plus or minus a day or two.

Jay, Kathy, my Dad and I will be driving the BMW 740IL (comfortable x-country car!!!) across the US exactly a year from when Jay & I set East to call Philly home.  We have yet to decide a route or even a plan, but seeing that we have 29 days before we leave, there is still time to figure it all out.

We want to take a couple weeks to traverse the country and flank our various friends/family from current and past lives.  In the spirit of www.weareonamission.com – we will set out on an adventure in change.  As quoted by Jeremy Castro circa 2001, “Life has brought some very unexpected changes. Either you embrace the change or you fight it, either way, it will change. So, with little thought, I bought my plane ticket and my EuroRail pass. Time to scratch the itch called my wild hair and do a little self discovering”

Since I brought the topic of WeAreOnAMission.com up, I might as well provide some interesting (or not) commentary.

Life appears to be filled with what we think are rapid changes.  However, these rapid changes are actually the accumulation of chains of events.  Take 2001 whien Nick, Chad and I dropped life as we knew it and left for Europe.  To make a lifelong story overly simplistic and short – it appears the trip started one drunken night at the Brass Monkey in LA’s Koreatown when I proclaimed “Let’s drop our lives and go to Europe”.    However, that life changing trip actually started years and years before that night.  I don’t know whether we can say it was when Nick left to study abroad in Itally in 1998 or when Chad went skiing in Big Bear sometime in 2000 or when I flipped a coin to go to Oxy in 1995.  Or, hell, we can even trace it back to a decision our parents made at some point in their lives.

The point I’m trying to make is that we set ourselves up for what has become of our lives whether we know it or not.  The interesting thing about that fateful trip in 2001 – Nick and Chad never came back from Europe.  Each is happily married to beautiful Spanish women living and working in their adopted home of Spain.  And for me, my mission continues just as it began – as part of a series of seemingly inconsequential events.  The mission never really begins or ends!

One of my favorite quotes…”the only thing significant about that night was the morning it proceeded.”

If you have any suggestions or would like to get put on our itinerary across the US next month – please hit me up.  We figure we will hit up anyone and everyone that we know.   Camera, stomachs and curiosity in tow.