A couple of years ago, a band I was in toured the UK. This was our 3rd tour in the UK and we had played about 23 shows around the UK and Ireland for a little over three weeks. We had gone on this tour with another band from Florida, the members of which I had been friends with for many years. When the tour came to an end, my friends' band was not leaving for the US immediately. Our band was moving on to continue to tour mainland Europe, but we were all sitting in Cardiff for a few days.

I've traveled quite a bit throughout the world, primarily in Europe and the US. I have always wanted to travel around the world, but never had the patience to spend the time saving up all of the money that I calculated such a trip would require. Work, save, work, save, impatience would grow and I would break down and go on tour with one of the bands that I've been in or jump on a plane and travel around Europe for a few months. This had been my cycle for a while.