Be The Jam

Date 4th May

Stage Planning Expedition

Location Oxford

Weather Grey

 Health Good

Fitness Poor (resting heart rate around 60 BPM)

Advertising revenue Yesterday - £0.34

• Total  £4.16

Readership Steady - seems to be increasing.

Prospect of Mission Improbable happening Good

Today's "genius" idea Restructure website

Shopping around is a good thing, today I have found software that allows connection to the internet via a phone / satellite phone work up to ten times faster, this suggests to me that I would be able to work quicker and so pay less in phone bills. I also think I have found suitable insurance for £321 rather than for the £1000 I had imagined it would cost.

So, I'm thinking out loud here.

Best case scenario.

Insurance     - £321

Travel           - £0.   (work passage).

Vaccinations  - £500

Equipment    - £500  (beg borrow steal the rest)

Website       -£0     (thanks to Squarespace)

Phonebill      - £0    Self financing via website (I have a cunning plan)

Training     - £1000

Emergency - £1000   

That's just (if we ignore the fact that there is a bit of wishfull thinking in the list) £3,321 and there is already £103 in the kitty already! Huzzah. So just £3,218 to go and if I wait until the autumn to work my passage on a yacht I should be able to save a fair chunk of that.

It's amazing what a bit of positive thinking and ignoring reality (difficulty of borrowing equipment etc) can do.

The plan now is to work as a chef for the summer at a very good place and learn a lot, save some money, use what I have learnt to get me a job in a yacht sailing to the Caribbean in the autumn (fall). Use the money earnt on the passage (if any) to fly from the Caribbean to Guyana and once there learn how to live in the jungle.

At this point I suspect I will discover that the jungle isn't a nice place and will then spend the next 12 months wishing I was somewhere else.