So, my best friend and I want to go to India and while thinking of how we were going to get there low and behold the most important question that to people about to travel together came blasting to the surface!Can "we" really travel? Together?! I mean, sure we've been best friends since the cradle, we've been in numerous and countless tight and ugly situations, so on and so forth... but will we really work well under that timeless spell? That curse of alltruedness and ultimate revelation of the soul?Honestly I already knew the answer, but we both know that this is something that will greatly benefit our friendship and more so than myself bring reality into perspective for him.You see, I've spent my entire life traveling and experiencing the many cultures of the world, while he, has spent his entire life, In the same town and in the same house.This place is called Pacific Grove, or as we like to call it Pacific Grave. They call this place, "the last home town" for us it's nothing short of a place on a map better left blank. Don't get me wrong its a beautiful and wonderful little town, but it's a tourist trap for a reason, no one who lives here looks forward to continuing to live here.Most of the inhabitants of this prehistoric village are retired old people, which is how we came to the name Pacific grave, people really just come here to relax and escape the world they lived in their whole lives so they can die peacefully and quietly. Long story short, were getting the fu*$ out of here come hell or high water and were not coming back until we've exhausted every possible avenue of escape.Haha, well maybe that's a bit of an overly critical point of view, let's just say our mission is to go out and see the world, unblemished and with close to no resources, including but not limited to... money, toilet paper, sense, sensabilities, clean clothes, fresh water, hair, teeth or even toothpaste. As you can see, the level of determination here is pretty good, and so our chances are that much better.After saying all that lets get to the planning part of all this shall we?It was a boring day and I was thinking about all the other travels Id had already, when I decided to walk to Blakes and see what the baby man child, crazy tooth bastard was thinking he was doing..I get to his house and Blake puts his hand on my shoulder with that face he always makes when he's about to say something I already know; pretending its a big suprise for us both, and he says "we've got to get out of here, and I've got a plan for how we can get money and thousands of miles away at the same time!"Great I said, hows that?Were going to be crab fisherman in Alaska this summer!He sits me down to the computer, tells me to do some research and walks off into the kitchen to eat.One thing about blake is he loves to have these great moments of genious in which all our problems are solved but then leaves the "details" to me. As I've always done in these situations with him I look into it, whether its because I'm just as bat shit crazy as he is or becuase I don't have the heart to tell him he couldn't plan the logistics of falling off a boat to hit water to save his soul.In any case for a long time, we planned to make this happen. There were a few obsticals in our way though. None of which I had the distinction of causing.You see blake had crashed two cars, racked up a mountain of debt for his age, gone to jail and had otherwise reverted back to the way of the undead which I had so pain painstakingly removed him from years earlier. This all happened while I was studying abroad, and I was mostly unable to reach or be of any use to him.So basically, to make it to Alaska we would first have to refit and retool one of the "less damaged" mini vans he had crashed, using parts from the "more wrecked" one and fixing the other with them.That was 2 months ago, since then we've droped the plan for alaska and have concentrated our efforts on either India or Israel, both of which are on our itinerary.We've finished our Visa applications for India and now continue our plans within plans for the adventure that awaits us.