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Joyce left Dublin to write Ulysses. Hemingway left Spain to write The Sun Also Rises. They had to. Distance generates perspective and understanding.
Thus the McGuirk World Tour: I've been given a year in which to work, study, travel, see the world, write, take pictures, and, most importantly, gain perspective and understanding.
The Tour kicks off on December 29th, 2001. I leave home, Providence, Rhode Island, that night and I arrive on New Years Eve in Sydney, Australia. I'll be taking classes there at the University of Sydney. One class is an American History class (from 1865 on) taught by an Australian, which should be rather interesting. The other is a 20th Century Literature class. When I finish those in mid-February, I have a few weeks to vagabond around Australia.
I come back to the States on March 4th, stay till just after my sister's birthday on March 8th, and leave for Nice, France, on the 9th. I'll be staying with a French family there while taking an intensive language program from EF. This program is finished in the second week of May, and from then till June 11th, I'll be, again, vagabonding, across Europe this time.
So, the way I look at it, I've been given a year by God. This website is an attempt to chronicle what I do with it. I hope you vicariously enjoy my little journey, here, and keep in touch with me while I'm all over the world. Check out the various sections: the journal, where I jot down random observations and events of the day; the gallery, where I post digital pictures of the stuff I'm doing (with commentary, hopefully); and the map, where you can see where I am at that moment.
Thanks for caring enough to arrive here.
Much love.Peace.

Sincerely,
Brian J. McGuirk