I opened up my browser to Yahoo just now, and came upon the sad news that Randy Pausch has died. To those who don't know the name, Randy was a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation, a best-selling book, and a TV movie. He was 47. If you haven't had the opportunity to see the video of his last lecture, or the background to it, see it here (highly recommended to watch). If you have, and know of him, perhaps you are as saddened as I am.
So what has this to do with my trip diary? Everything. As Randy said "We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." Randy would say, "If you do nothing else in your life, have fun".
We're trying, Randy, we're trying.
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