Welcome to the first official blog entry of AlaskaCasey.com!  The website is still a work in progress, but the ultimate goal is to have a blog and photo gallery in working order to chronicle the world as I (Casey) see it!

Special thanks to Jim Stone who is amazing and has single handedly made this all possible. I’m not sure what I ever did to deserve such great friends, but everyday I am grateful to have them!

As most of you know, life is moving at warp speed. I officially put in my two weeks notice at Wachovia Securities, September 12^th is my last day, and finalized my plans for leaving Alaska, well, kind of.

The plan right now is to go to Germany with Matt and Jon from September 13^th to the 27^th where we will be couchsurfing through Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Austria. Matt and I are both excited about actually surfing since we have been hosting for so long. Hopefully the trip will result in some entertaining blog entries from yours truly. We will also be attending Oktoberfest in Munich which is going to be a riot. I can already tell.

Our flight lands in Anchorage an hour before we leave Germany (don’t you love time zones) the evening of the 27^th. I then get to jump in my car Sunday morning and begin driving like a banshee down to Oregon to attend Courtney’s wedding. This part of the plan isn’t much of a plan at all. Hopefully I will convince somebody cool to come do the drive with me. The wedding is going to be great! It’s the first weekend in October and it’s going to be the equivalent of a college reunion. I can’t wait to see what all of our old friends are up to.

After the wedding festivities the plan is drive to San Francisco and stay in that area through Halloween. As far as money? Well, hopefully I’ll figure something out. I like to think of myself as the antithesis to Murphy’s Law, in fact, let’s call it Casey’s Law: if something can go right, it will!

After California it’s on to Denver, Colorado to hang with my best friend Janae for the winter. I have a feeling that we are going to be spending a lot of time drinking Coors and hitting the slopes and that sounds like a perfect winter to me!

So please keep checking back often. There will be lots of updates and the site will definitely keep evolving!