Inaugural Post

Ahem, thanks for coming to my blog. Let me first explain what the point of my blog is (I realize that for some that might sound really funny...a blog with a point?) This Friday is my last day at my first job right out of college. It's been a great 3 1/2 years marketing electronic test equipment, but I'm off to get my MBA at Columbia University in New York. Between this Friday and when I start school in late August, I plan to drive a little over 12,000 miles on a grand tour of North America. This blog will be a chronicle of my trip! I'd also like to do it for the following:

• Let my fellow CBS '07 admits know where I am so we can possibly meet for a beer...or two
• Keep my family and girlfriend in a less panicked state (and the state police from searching for me when I haven't called to check in)
• Let people make suggestions on where I should go when I'm in an area they've been to
• Make use of my Blackberry when I'm hanging out in my tent at night
  
• Let strangers know more about me than most of my friends do. ;-)

Generally, that's the point of this blog. I might keep writing stuff in it after I get to New York, but it seems more likely that I'll A) start a new one B) stop blogging and start reading b-school case studies till my eyes can't focus. :-)

I'll post more stuff about my route and I'll that stuff soon, but I wanted to get some stuff up here right quick.

Brian
0 out of 12,142 miles
Austin, TX