I'm Shane. For those of you who don't already know me welcome to the Chaos that is my life. Join me as I travel around the world on a sailboat. I walked away from a great career as a professional firefighter, a large luxurious home, everything I owned and even gave away my best friend Drake the dog. Why you ask? To travel the world on a boat. Cruising to foreign places all at 5 mph. From the Caribbean now to South America soon, I hope you will dig reading about all the ridiculous situations I will no doubt get myself into as I continue trying to adjust to this radical life switch.

*Update* So after over a year of not blogging I'm going to start again. I am spending the summer season on Catalina Island of the coast of California living onboard a 65 foot diveboat and teaching diving. I'm sure there will be plenty of chaos to follow.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Back in consumer hell

I'm on a layover in Dallas at the moment and the reverse culture shock is setting back in. I was ready to toss this annoying Italian family out of the plane that had utterly no respect for the other people around them as their two teenage daughters slapped each other and the little mutant of a boy they had ran up and down the aisle screaming his little dreadlocked head off. So far here in the airport I have walked past three Starbucks in one gate area, there is an ad on the wall that informs me I can go to a McDonalds at gates c6, c22, a13, a25, and b29, there is a vending machine near me that sells iPods, and everyone has cell phones plastered to their ears. Doesn't take long to know you are back in America, man it's good to be home...I think.
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Anonymous said...

Turn around and go back before the retailers suck out your soul. Sorry to hear about your i-pod. It is fun to hear about your love of music, we have 15 thousand songs on ours so we can relate. It has been fun reading your blog, thank you. From a 39yo drop out that made the mistake of coming back. In the process of selling everything again and heading away.
Sam & Ashlee

August 29, 2008 at 6:22 AM

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