“An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.”
Charles Darwin

It seems that without an ‘About Me’ section people can’t seem to figure out who you are or what the site is about, almost giving you authority to write about whatever topic you post. This coincides with the fact that I wrote a post stating why an ‘About Me’ section fails in most cases and especially in travel blogs. Although, is this really a travel blog, and truth be told this just says ‘About’ I never specified what it was that I was ‘abouting.’ Either way, I figured since you clicked on the link to this page I should at least give you something…

About Me: Monkey is as monkey does, I think someone famous said that once. I’m a traveling monkey on a mission to figure out what makes you humans tick. I like to fling poo, drink, travel and other things that I can’t think of right now or just don’t merit mentioning here. I’m kind of random, but hey you’re the one reading a monkey’s blog; silly human.

The base of my desire to travel came one semi-sober night in Rio de Janeiro with the idea to create a Bucket List to keep my adventures going. I started to notice that I’d have to become a mini globe trotter in order to accomplish even half of my goals, which wasn’t a bad idea. A few failed attempts to land a job teaching in Japan opened a chance for me to work at a school and earn degree for free while I’m here.  That’s where I stand now, but tomorrow is a different day with new unexplored opportunities.

About The Site: It’s a blog, I can confirm that much. The rest is just random things flung that may or may not circle around the topic of travel. I’m no travel expert but I like doing it and I’m working on becoming a location independent traveling nomadic [insert new hip travel term here] in the future. My goal is that by 2012 I will have earned my Masters of Education in Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) degree and move outside the US to find a job that will allow me to continue paying off my debt and fund future travels.  Yeah that’s a long time down the road but in reality time flies, and since I’m no Wizard of Oz flying monkey I just have to go with the flow. So until then I will plot and plan round the world trips somewhere off into the not so distant future while inserting mini excursions to keep me sane.

Why Create the Site Now, What’s That About: Well, this is my motivation. I figured that as long as I’m typing away and investing time and money into a travel site that I will continue to travel. I’m not saying that without this site I wouldn’t be traveling, I just fear I would never become a traveler but more of a vacationer. Plus for you non blogging nerds, the behind the scenes aspect of creating, maintaining and marketing a blog are insane and require a lot of time. Let’s face it when I’m traveling I don’t want to be spending hours on end researching what the hell SEO means . No damn it, I’ll be hanging out on beaches throwing back drinks and snapping photos exploring what it means to be furry in a speedo, too busy for minor details like web development. (That’s right minor details not what’s in my furry speedo, not that it’s minor or mini or…..dang it!)

I’m throwing my stone in the pond; the ripples that follow cannot be controlled and haven’t yet been determined.

*It may be more flinging than throwing and the stone may actually be poo and not a stone, but that’s irrelevant.

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