I love to travel.  I love to plan trips, I like to see new things and eat at local restaurants.  If I could, I would probably take a trip every year.  I don’t think Mick would say the same.  He is always a good sport about taking trips, and he always says he has a good time when he is there, but if he really had the choice, I don’t think he would travel much.  Whereas I am the type of traveler that researches my destination and runs from one activity to the next to squeeze in as many memories as possible, Mick’s idea of vacation is to go to a new place and pretty much do exactly what he would normally do at home.  In fact, I’m pretty sure he would be perfectly happy to skip the “go to a new place” part and just do the “exactly what he would normally do” part.  He does drink more Dr. Pepper when we travel, that’s what says vacation to him.

So, for being a man who prefers not to travel, he already has a couple of trips planned this spring, and I had nothing to do with them.  Next week, he will be gone for four days at a frisbee golf tournament.  He has provided me with a tentative itinerary, which looks to me like about 10% frisbee golfing and about 90% dicking around, but he seems excited.  This effects you as the reader only in that he has to finish 5 pages of original art and his entire application for the DC Talent Workshop, as well as a week’s worth of Merunga before he goes.  Needless to say, he is drawing right now.  He’s actually streaming while drawing on Twitch currently, he’s been streaming on Tuesday nights some.  If you are interested, you should check it out.  Maybe we can convince him to make it a regular thing, kind of like the lady who body paints herself to look like comic book characters every Saturday night.  But that is a blog post for a different day…

The other trip Mick has coming up is a foray to Planet Comicon, the con in Kansas City.  We’ve been going since the con was pretty small, but it’s been growing every year.  Simon Tam and Wash from Firefly are both going to be there this year, as well as some Battlestar Galactica peeps, and Stan Lee.  They will also have some representatives from some big comic book companies there to critique art work.  You can basically bring them in a portfolio and they will look at it, and on the off chance they like your stuff, they may call you back.  So, the work Mick is putting in to the talent workshop can also do double duty as part of his portfolio for Comicon.  Not exactly a world traveler, but probably twice as much travelling as he has ever volunteered to do