split my year between two places

I travel back and forth so much, which will suffice for now…

A great dream though. Hmmmm, split my time between Australia and the US….or maybe Europe and the US.

I used to split my years between the US and Japan, with about 3-4 months a year in the US and the rest in Japan. I didn’t like spending that much time in airports and airplanes and eventually just moved back to the States and am glad to be settled now.

maybe half a year at a beach somewhere and the other half in the mountains. maybe the san juan range in southern colorado.

Mid-May through August in Denmark, the US for the rest of the year, except xmas and week 8 skiing, which will be in Europe of course.

In fantasy land, when I make enough money, I get a loft in NYC. I stay there from April 20th to November 1st, with frequent weekend trips/weeks spent at a jersey shore house that I would own too. Then on november 1st (I like halloween and fall in the northeast) I go to florida until early January, when I go to the Colorado house that I also buy in futureland. I snowboard my ass off until early April, when I go back to Florida for a week or so and then return to the Northeast all happy and ready to do whatever it is I do to make enough money to afford these houses.

I’ve been kind of doing this for a few years now, spending about 10 weekends a year in NJ. The bi-coastal commute is a pain going east because you lose a day. But non-stop flights home are only 4.5 hours, and back to SEA is only 5.5 hours, so it’s not too bad. Cons: memorize all the gates in EWR, spend much time running down my ipod battery and reading magazines while trying to convince myself to work on the plane, friends think you’re a little weird for going home for 40 hours. Pros: get to see my family and friends back home, eat bagels, go to NYC, play with Kate, the cutest toddler in the world

I’ve had long conversations with a friend of mine about this, how society is mutating into tribes and location is meaning less and less, with the virtual presence enabled by the internet and it’s associated technologies. It seems logical that you’d just have a big group of people with a bunch of houses or communes you’d own all over the world, and every few months you’d head somewhere new. You’d have internet access, you’d run into some of the same people, and you’d be able to experience lots of different cultures. It’d probably be hard on school-age kids, but I bet younger kids wouldn’t mind, especially if instead of working 12 hour workdays we worked 5 hours and then spent the rest of the time actually living.

Tokyo from October through May, for sure. The rest of the year…Chicago, New York, Beijing, Rome, somewhere in Australia? I can’t decide!