Always Travelling

I meant to post this a couple of weeks ago but forgot and left it in my drafts folder. My posts are becoming more of a ramble amongst all the photos, but whatever. I'm really enjoying life at the moment!
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It's amazing the treasures you turn up when you throw your old crap out. I sound like a teenager, but today I went about cleaning up my room. It's been a work in progress for a while now, and today I got rid of another 2 big black plastic bags full of stuff. I've also prepared 3 boxes of books to take down to the second hand bookstore and hopefully get some cash for. This whole clean up is because I have someone very special arriving in the country in around 73 hours...

Anyway back to what motivated me to post. In sorting out the junk from the gems, I came to the realisation that I have a whole collection of religious texts, collected over the last few years. I have:

• three copies of the Koran, one of which is a beautiful leather bound copy with each page divided into 2 rows, with the Arabic up top and then in the bottom row two columns in which one the English translation is provided and the other provides addition material in order to explain or enlighten.
• a whole host of booklets aiming to clear up typical Western misconceptions about Islam.
  
• a few copies of the Bible.
• a pocket size book of psalms and proverbs from The Gideons (must have got this in Primary School as it is red).
  
• other pamphlets and whatnot on Baha'i and Buddhism.
  

I recently had a wonderful idea that just seems to get better every time I think about it: why not work for the first 6 months of 2008 after I graduate, save up ten grand, and then go live in paradise (Mauritius) for the second half of the year? Pascaline confirms that $10,000 would be plenty. This is more of a laugh than anything else, and if we can get over to Japan or the UK, then we will, but it's not all that bad a fall back, a worst case scenario.

And it would give me ample time to read some of this stuff I always put aside for a period when I'm not as busy.... and try to get my head around what I actually think. Six months in paradise sounds pretty good to me.