Newley Purnell

Remember when I said that great things await in 2006? Well, try this one on for size:

In less than 48 hours I leave for Korea.

Seoul, to be exact. Gonna visit my brother there for a while, then take an extended Asian sojourn. Taiwan? You better believe it. Southeast Asia? Perhaps. China? Mongolia? Bangladesh? I wouldn’t rule anything out.

For now, all I can say with any degree of certainty is that I arrive in Seoul at 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday evening and I come back to the US on June 8th.

I’ll have Web access throughout, as I’ll be working — and, of course, I’ll be updating newley.com with both text and photos. I’m writing this from Beaufort, South Carolina, where I’m visiting my mom and step-dad and brother Colin. Drove down here from DC yesterday. I leave on Monday morning from Savannah; I go through Atlanta and San Francisco on my way to the far east. (Sorry not to have announced this a little earlier, but, well, you know how I roll.)

Stay tuned, friends. I’m gonna have some good stories to tell.