October 13, 2004

• Topic: On the Road

  
  

  Oh yes…a much needed bit of traveling is ahead.  In about 2hours, i’ll be on a Greyhound bus bound for Denver, Colorado.  I’ll arrive on Thur. it’s about 19 hours or so.  On Fri. I’m going to visit an Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound school, www.elob.org called the Rocky Mtn. School.  On Sat. I leave to head to San Fran., (24 hours on a bus).  My parents will be there for a few days, so i’ll see them on Monday.  Mon. night, I’m meeting w/ the submissions editor of New World Library for dinner.  Tues. I hope to visit UC Berkeley to learn a bit about their de-cal program, where students create and teach their own courses.  Tues. night I’m heading back to Colorado.  I may re-visit the ELOB school.  Next Fri., I am meeting with the Presdent of the Association of Experiential Education. 

  
  

  So…I have some meeting to attend to, which is important.  I’m also looking forward to the experience.  The unknown of the next 10 days or so.  Not knowing how these meetings will turn out.  Not knowing what new opportunities will arise.  I just walked through campus w/ my hiking pack on, and after getting many funny looks, one person commented, we talked, and I sold a book.  I’m starting to think that “the hiking book tour,” might have just begun.  It’s more fun than buying a book from a book signing, or at a book store, I think.

  
  

  Just met w/ Dean McLeod.  He’s “THE” dean of arts & sciences.  I got some re-assurance that Wash U., like most universities, struggles w/ all of the issues I presented, and struggles to find creative ways to solve them.  “It’s like going to a fancy hotel, you can still have a bad night.”  That’s his way of describing why students like myself don’t always have the best experience at “the best” schools.  Anyways…it was a good ice-breaking meeting, it’ll be a few weeks till I get to see him again.  As for finding a work opportunity, I was left w/ a “maybe.”  Better than a no, not as good as a yes.

  
  

  Well…my friends, I’m off on my journey.  I hope to have some posts along the way.  Hopefully about my progress, as well as some other stream of conscious ramblings that will surely come out of the 96 hours of bus rides I’ll be having over the next week and a half. 

  
  

  Go Cards.  Go Sox. 

  
  

  -Dan

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