Welcome to Tim Witting’s Nomad Diaries, where I’ll be detailing my wanderings around the world for the next half a year or so. Before I begin, first let me give a big Thank You to Pat and Sosten for setting up this blog enabling me to communicate with all of you. As of now, the scheduled itinerary of the trip starts from the smoke-filled coffee shops of Amsterdam, through Central and Eastern Europe down to Turkey, where I hop on a plane to Japan, then continuing through inland China and zig-zagging through Southeast Asia going down to probably Indonesia, possibly Australia.

A cringe takes over me as I write the word ’scheduled’ though as this entire period of traveling is really an exercise in anything but planning. Yea, I bought one of those ‘around the world tix’ which gives me some sort of geographical base, but where I go within this region, who I meet, what I do, who knows. That’s the great thing about traveling by ones-self, this unparalleled sense of freedom, no restrictions no ball and chain, just go and do what, when and how you see fit. And this is really the point of a trip like this I think: dropping all biases and preconceptions at the departing airport, whip out that blank sheet of paper, and just start violently scribbling away that next chapter in that novel of your life. This, I believe is what freedom really is–acceptance of complete spontaneity and truly living every moment like it is your last–and this is what this trip is about for me.

Thank you for your interest in joining me on this ride; hopefully this blog will prove to be a little informative, inspiring, and entertaining for you–those are my goals at least! My promise to you the reader is that I will write if I have something to say, but only under that stringent condition. I promise to be myself and keep it real at all times. I do not promise to input the entries in an orderly fashion with respect to time, however, as experiences and insights follow a quite non-linear path, and as my first condition takes precedence over all else concerning this journal, the entries will probably tend to be quite clustered and sporadic. Now, enough bla-bla-ing, and time for some doing. Stay tuned, on July 20th as the voyage begins…