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Conception

// By Steve // March 4th, 2009 // Show Updates

Donovan gave you the story a few days ago about the inception of Going My Way, now I am here to tell you the idea.  Consider: vast, gaping void + meteor = fjord^2 a.k.a. ‘Awesome’.  Now, for those of you that are not so good with math, I shall expound.

Donovan and I both like to travel; but we do so in very different ways.  He enjoys the upscale motif with tasty, high-priced wines, luxurious hotel rooms, and waitresses who smile because he has a big credit card.  I find this ostentatious.  To defend, I too enjoy massages, I enjoy scuba diving, and I enjoy showers, but I have had repeated, overly-fortunate opportunities to travel out of a sack.  That means camping each night, washing in rivers, and barely eating.  Because of this ill-defined, relatively ‘impoverished’ (comparing to Donovan) wandering I have sipped tea with remote locals who have never seen foreigners, I have climbed mountains to which no tour has been guided, and I have had the liberty of moving without a binding schedule.  It is ultimately wondrous.  Even still, Donovan insists his classy jaunts are irresistible.  So, we are now putting our ceaseless argument to the test…for all of you to judge.

Going My Way will be a travel show like no other.  There will be competition.  There will be endless landscapes.  There will two guys running around the world, bickering like an old married couple, each trying to ‘gently’ let the other person understand that he really wanted to travel the way the other wanted to travel, in the first place, but he just doesn’t remember it right now because he is so overcome by how right the other one was and, no, chocolates do not make up for forgetting my birthday! ….Sorry, when is Dono’s b-day, anyway? May?

At each destination you will see the two extremes of travel: extravagance, and splendid squalor. Each of us will be weighing the merits of our choices while setting traps to convince the other our way of travel is superior (or traps for unprompted revenge). You will see humanity from myriad angles.  You will witness the magnitude of effect that comes from holding a different point-of-view.  You will explore the secrets of the world alongside us.  And, hopefully, you will be so excited, you will get out there and experience the grandeur with us.

4 Responses to “Conception”

  1. nelewis says:
    March 12, 2009 at 12:47 pm

    I love this concept! You see these as separate travel shows, but never together. I do hope this idea will include finding a “happy medium” between swank and budget, for those of us who are, in fact, both of you rolled in one.

  2. Steve says:
    March 12, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    I am sure there will be some form of compromise forced upon us–it always seems to be when two people are married…I mean, working together. Every situation calls for a different form of travel, hopefully we get to cover the relevant and interesting ways each place demands.

  3. Karen says:
    March 12, 2009 at 4:28 pm

    This sounds like this will be incredibly exciting! Now I can finally vicariously live my dreams through you, and hopefully end up going your way one day too. It may get tricky and it may get messy but ultimately it will be adventure. I suppose we’ll see how you make ends meet!

  4. Steve says:
    March 13, 2009 at 4:52 pm

    @Karen: Ya, this should be mad fun–and messy, indeed (or, at least my portion will be). Karen, let us know if there are any spots in particular that you have hit up or would like us to try out. My biggest thing is to get you excited enough to get out and have tonnes of fun yourself. Keep enjoying Montreal, and happy graduation in a few.

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