By the time I embark, the grand-daddy of the southern hemisphere's great trains has already covered more than 1,000 miles on its way from Sydney, where the waters of the Pacific provide the surf crucial to the Australian experience.
So I embarked this morning to the Palo Alto Verizon store, hoping to use a Qik live stream to capture the festive line of Droid fans sure to be present.
After a crash review of the technology, I embarked on the first of three 2-week site visits to Al Jubail on the Persian Gulf coast.
In the mid 1990s, I embarked on the first of what would become several world tours of Planet Barbecue to research my first book on live-fire cooking, The Barbecue!
The glorious trek my boyfriend and I embarked upon, the first few miles of the Kalalau Trail, is a popular walk, and though guides list it as strenuous, I think that's a bit of a stretch.
After my brief and unintentional period of poly as a teen, I returned to serial monogamy, endeavouring to make each relationship I embarked upon the relationship, experiencing all the exciting, loved-up highs and all the weepy, heartbroken lows.
This past week I embarked on the first leg of the radical, lefty, pinko-commie Laughter Against the Machine comedy tour with fellow comics Nato Green and W. Kamau Bell.
On the final day, the race itself over, I embarked on the unmarked, 15km stretch back towards Jomsom.
While Naples's citizens got on with the business of making a living, I embarked on the equally serious business of exploring a city as beautiful as it is chaotic.
So I embarked on the enormous expedition of choosing some text from the vast body of Kafka's work.
