I’ve been really wanting to do a lot of blogging lately but, for reasons I’m about to explain, haven’t.  Various sources of inspiration combined with various events have made my life rather interesting lately, for the better or worse – and this is why i’ve been wanting to write.

Reason #1 for not blogging:

Lame reason, so I thought I’d get it out of the way: I’m currently looking into re-locating road2japan to another server with a decent testing environment so that I can experiment more.  What’s that got to do with not blogging? Well, here’s the lame reason: I’ve backed up the database already.  And if I write another post, then… It means i’ll have to back up the database again or do a copy/paste job – I know, lame, pure laziness, but the only reason i held off was because I thought I was going to set up the new environment sooner – but alas, time has eluded me, and that has nothing to do with procrastination! Really! But I swear, this makes up like, 10% of the reason why I haven’t been blogging.

So you may have noticed that some random dude named Paul seems to have infiltrated Road2Japan.com and is tarnishing my lovely blog with his crazy insane wackiness and absurd claims of coming to Japan.

Lifelike representation of Paul

Well, he’s doing so because I asked him to.

Paul’s been a really good mate of mine for about 8 years or so now, grew up together, 13 houses apart.  Now he has decided to spend New Years Day here in Japan, and while he’s at it, join me and my crew on a backpacking trip around Japan.  So he’s hanging around for a month, whilst at the same time offering his thoughts and views before, during, and possibly after his visit to Japan.