Education gained from travelling > education at uni. Travelling alone is fine, since you will fall in with the hosteling crowd, a mix of artists, trustafarians, students on break, and some others including I imagine internet poker players (when I was on the gringo trail in Central America, internet poker was not around, but all the other types were there). It is just as easy to get laid while travelling as it is to get laid at college, so don't worry about that. You will undoubtedly meet up with people and hop off to somewhere you have never been before on a whim. As an aside, I suggest doing this with most Dutch girls that you come across. Two thumbs up highly recommend.

So yeah, go for it. Just have some one at home that you trust hold the equivelent of about $5k USD so they can bail you out of jail/pay bribes/buy you a plane ticket home/repatriate your body - incase any of these problems should arise.

One of my friends who I introduced to poker and showed BTP read my journal and wants to come with me. He basically feels like he's in the same situation, with uni being extremely dull and finding himself going to fewer and fewer classes. I was so proud of him today when he IM'd me from inside a class telling me he just stacked someone

We're currently talking about plans and where/when we'd go and all those sorts of details. He's just moved into an apartment where the lease runs out in August, and i've just bought a new computer and signed up to a gym - so it looks like it'll be a few months till we go. Which is okay with me. Now I have to decide if I should finish this current semester of uni, or quit now and spend the next few months playing poker and making a tonne of bank.

Yilh - you should go for it. Maybe we can meet up in timbuktu.

Poker wise, i've barely played the past week or so. I've been getting my computer up and running and I can finally say I THINK (and by think I mean BLOODY WELL HOPE) that everything is running fine now. I just need to email PT Pat for the 7th time in about 2 weeks for another key... March is about as close as i've ever come to the possibility of having a losing month playing poker. I'm sitting at about -$2,000 atm, but with 20 days left I can only believe i'll turn this into a positive. Still, it is a real shitty feeling to be down for the month being over 1/3 of the way through.

I've got my first session with my personal trainer at the gym tomorrow morning. I guess i'll walk in and say "make me as big as possible in the next 6 months", or something to that effect.

More updates to come on my trip.

Is this the trip to Italy you're talking about? Or are u thinking about going elsewhere? Im down for spending some time outside the US ~september.

A personal trainer eh? Looks like im gonna have to step up to the plate and start workin out.

ED, good advice.

First of all - I recommended Breakfast at TIffany's because a) it was a good movie and b) I haven't seen Silence of the Lambs. So I wasn't saying that one was better than the other.

This is different to the trip to Italy. That trip was based on studying a semester of uni in a different uni, one in Italy. My new plans are to drop out of uni (again) and just go travel for x amount of time. Hopefully i'll get to Italy at some point, as well as a whole bunch of other places.

Around September is probably when we're leaving. We're still a while away from deciding where we want to visit first, but South America is definitely an option, as are Europe / Usa / Somewhere in Asia. Basically, anywhere. It'd be cool if you could come.

Hehe, I'm also training a buddy of mine. He can currently beat 200NL 6-tabling, but I need to get him to crush 400NL. When he has finished his training and I've built my roll a bit more, we are prolly gonna hit the road, basically just party around the world without much regard to expenses and making sure we both average at least 5 hours of grinding each day.

I'm a lazy bastard though and prolly gonna stay away from toughest places. Prefer places where you don't have to worry about getting kidnapped and where you can find tourist chicks to bang. Ibiza, Thailand, Greece, Caribbean, etc..

Anyways, maybe we'll run into you