So I'm feeling quite jealous today. This morning, by sheer random googling luck, I found the website for guy I used to tertiarily (is that even a word?) work with at Disney. But he's not at animation anymore, he's on this nine-month tour from California to Hawaii. But, you know, the other way around the world.

I'm completely 100% jealous right now - but not of this guy's trip. As I've learned extensively over the past 14 months I'm not really a big world-travel kind of guy. The thought of wandering Hong Kong or Bangkok totally stresses me out.

I am, however, completely jealous of this guy's website.

He has such amazing stories. And photos. And even videos.

The Great Wall of China. Typhoon Fitlow in Tokyo. The beach from "The Beach". A 24 hour train trip from Shanghai to Guilin.

I don't even know where Guilin is!

Um, I drove by the world's tallest freestanding building on land yesterday. But you could barely see it through the haze and smog.

That's all I've got.

I mean, I am actually reticent to share this guy's URL with you, for fear that you might find his stories more amusing than my ... um, crap.

Seriously, what have I talked about this week? Baseball, Hatta, the Burj, the Palm, more baseball and an American-made movie about Saudi. Last week it was preschool animation done in Spain, some rambling about Dubai Cares and the Salik toll, an American theme park in Abu Dhabi, the state of Kentucky (!), and some quilt that we hung on the wall.

Wow, even I like Tony Swarthout's website better than my own.