So, my quest to traverse Planet Earth AND make someone else pay for it is still working.
This decision came to mind about 6 years ago and took 2 years to get the ball rolling. Sent out hundreds if not a thousand or more emails, therefore this all did not come sans great effort and expense on my part. Spent zillions of my own money for NDE certs and other training/certs.
Now 6 years later, over 200,000 air miles (paid for by big oil and the US Dept of Defense) I've managed to have my passport stamped in over 20 countries, worked in 4 countries, and now a US territory. I have travelled all my life and an interesting side note is the this is my 2nd US territory to visit. The first was Hawaii back in 1959 2 months before it became a state.
Now I am in Guam on a 17 mile pipeline with a 4 day work week (I would rather have some overtime, but looks like that aint a gonna happen) living in what some would consider an enviable environment.
In a way to me it is only "Just Another Job". I truly wish I could find a TPI job back in Wyoming. The winters aren't that bad these days with global warming and such. But the Fates obviously have other plans.
Just another day on the Right of Way.
The Grey Ghost B52 got a tour of the jungle in the last typhoon back in '92?. It was AWOL for 21 years until they started clearing for a new perimeter roadway.
Well it's time to suffer some fruit via the toils of my labor and go find that hidden nude beach... yeah, I know... Sux 2 b me.