Bootstrappin’

September 2007, just past dawn. New York State Route 17. I’m squeezed in my Los Angeles-bound Ford Taurus, packed with all of my earthly belongings, on my 8th cross-country drive in two years…feeling like a sell-out.

When I graduated from Ithaca College the previous May, I vowed to myself (and anyone who would listen) that I wasn’t going to do the norm of recent Television and Film graduates…that is, move to LA, get a crappy entry level job as a Production Assistant, and work my way up for the next ten to thirty years. “I’m going to go on an adventure instead! Work is for suckers! There’s so much more to life than ‘success’ and ‘livelihood’!”, I told myself over and over.

Yet, there I was, four months later, heading 80 down the freeway toward Hollywood, already playing catch-up with all my friends who bit the bullet and actually started their careers. Sitting around doing nothing for the four months after graduation was probably a mistake. But I felt like starting up my career without quenching my thirst for adventure was a bigger one.

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Once upon a time, there were these two guys named Pete, who traveled around the world. This is their story.

Welcome to The Adventures of Pete and Pete! We’re two guys from upstate New York trying to travel west around the world for as little money as possible. This is a blog where I (one of the Petes) am going to write about our trip, and anything interesting we see or do along the way.

The goal is to make it all the way around the world as cheaply as possible…and see as much of the world as we can. Yes, we’re gonna hitchhike. Yes, we’re gonna eat weird foods. Yes, we’re gonna go to dangerous places. That’s the point.

We don’t know where we’re going.

We don’t know how long we’ll be gone.

We’re going for one purpose: Adventure.