Its been said that you are what you spend the most time doing.

If that’s the case, then I guess I’ve been transformed from adventurer back to computer geek, full circle back to before I quit IBM in 2005.

Lately all I have been doing is burning eyeballs on the computer, trying to scrape together some meager travel funds off the internet.  Easier said than done.  After 3 solid years of no rat race job, I find myself for the first time in a long time worrying about money again.

Nothing a cheap wander won’t fix, but for the time being I am spending 15 hours days pounding a keyboard with the occasional photography gig to earn some pub money.

The latest fruit of my non-travel efforts is a complete redesign and re-launch of my backpacking travel website Startbackpacking.com.  If its been a while since you visited, go check it out – the changes are definitely a good thing despite me joining the horde of WordPress sites that already dominate the travel corner of the web.I think “www” stands for WordPress, WordPress, WordPress now days.

Now that the new site has been vomited out of my brain and into the Matrix, I will be launching a couple of promotional contests soon – readers here will be the first to hear about them.  If you have a backpacking website, let’s be friends!