Milestones
Major Events In My Life
(or at least during the more recent years)
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14 Jan 1998 | Doug decides to travel the world. |  |
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17 Dec 1999 | Doug's exile to California finally ends. | |
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01 Jan 2000 | Doug celebrates the millennium in Scotland. | |
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31 Oct 2000 | Doug sells his house (and everything in it). | |
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05 Dec 2000 | Doug begins his world tour!!! | |
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11 Dec 2000 | Doug leaves his homeland. | |
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17 Dec 2000 | It's been a year since Doug worked. | |
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04 Jan 2001 | Doug tries acupuncture. | |
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01 Feb 2001 | Doug begins his travels. | |
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11 Feb 2001 | Doug learns a new trade. | |
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21 Feb 2001 | Doug sets foot in Vietnam. | |
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17 Apr 2001 | Doug starts to miss things from home. | |
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01 Jun 2001 | Doug sends a message in a bottle. | |
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17 Jun 2001 | Doug completes his circumnavigation of the globe (one of the items on my Bucket List). |
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18 Jun 2001 | The counter on the camera reaches 5000. |  |
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05 Sep 2001 | Doug contracts borrelia! | |
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18 Sep 2001 | Our bicycles were stolen in Amsterdam. | |
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05 Dec 2001 | Doug returns to Texas for the first time (one year to the day after departing). |
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17 Dec 2001 | Now two years since Doug worked. Yea! | |
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28 Dec 2001 | Doug starts his second trip around the world. | |
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05 Apr 2002 | The counter on the camera reaches 10,000. | |
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12 Jul 2002 | Doug nearly dies! | |
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17 Dec 2002 | Wow! Three years since Doug worked. | |
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29 Aug 2003 | Doug passes 100,000 miles (160,900 km). | |
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29 Sep 2003 | Number of days traveling: 1000. | |
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11 Dec 2003 | Doug learns a new trade - for real this time. | |
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17 Dec 2003 | An unbelievable fourth year of no work. | |
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01 Aug 2004 | Doug finally starts work again after a vacation of 1686 days (4 years, 7 months, 15 days). |
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08 Apr 2006 | First "walk-across" border crossing - China to Laos (after more than 100 crossings!). | |
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13 May 2006 | The counter on the camera reaches 15,000. | |
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29 Jun 2006 | Doug buys the THIRD Sony VAIO of his world tour. | |
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18 Sep 2006 | Number of days traveling: 2000. | |
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03 Oct 2006 | Doug's third trip back to the US, this time after being away for 911 days. (9-1-1... OMG!) | |
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26 Nov 2006 | Doug turns 50!!! | |
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23 Jun 2007 | Doug passes 200,000 miles (321,800 km). | |
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20 Aug 2009 | Doug's fourth trip back to the US - away for 821 days this time. | |
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18 Dec 2009 | Doug's first IT "job" since 17 Dec 1999 - another 1389 days (3 years, 9 months, 18 days) since teaching. [Incredibly, that's ten years and one day between IT jobs.] | |
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06 Apr 2011 | Number of days traveling: 3000. | |
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30 May 2011 | Doug visits a new country for the first time in 1372 days (4 years, 9 months, 3 days). | |
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04 Jun 2011 | The counter on the camera reaches 20,000. | |
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14 Aug 2011 | Doug ventures into the Middle East for the first time! | |
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14 Nov 2011 | Doug passes 300,000 miles (482,700 km). | |
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26 Nov 2013 | Eleventh birthday in a foreign country (out of the past thirteen years)...
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27 Dec 2013 | Number of days traveling: 4000. | |
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01 Jan 2014 | For fourteen of the past sixteen years, Doug brings in the New Year in a foreign country...
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