Bring your swim trunks, and your flippy floppies...

So I've been naively playing the lotto and entering into as many online sweepstakes as my soon to be arthritic fingers will allow me to in hopes of kicking off my trip around the world in a beautiful 136' Astilleros Celaya yacht.  Amazingly enough, I didn't win a thing... other than a mailbox full of penis enlargement adds and an email account that I'm now scared to sift through.  Needless to say, I'll be substituting a tranquil 7 month retreat at sea on 136 feet of floating paradise for a 22 hour flight on a cramped Boeing 747-400 next to a bumpkin who just wandered down from the Appalachians.  No worries though, that's why I'm bringing along my ipod and enough nyquil to down a baby giraffe (or an unruly 5 year old).  It's hard to imagine that in just a few more weeks I'll be tearing ass across Australia on 150cc's of twisted steel and sex appeal (read: vintage Executive Jiajue scooter)...  This baby tops out at about 110kph, which, if I've done my math right, puts it somewhere between a Bugatti Veyron and my old rusted out '89 Jeep Comanche.  Can't wait!