Welcome to my blog

Hello and welcome to my blog. This inaugural post is going to follow the same formula as all those original superhero movies released over the last few years - it'll give you the background to who I am, and how I've come to be 'Scott on the Road', rather than just plain old, mild-mannered Scott. This'll allow me to jump straight into the action in future.

OK, so who am I? Well as you've probably grasped, my name is Scott. I'm 27 years old, a graduate, and my main hobbies are football, travelling and poker, and of course 'socialising' as we all put on our CV's in lieu of 'going out and getting twatted with my mates'. Until five weeks ago I lived with my girlfriend in North London and worked in marketing for a charity in Old Street.

However, all this was about to change. On one dingy day in February I became both redundant and single. Although it was a sad day I decided I had to turn those two negatives into a big positive (pls forgive the Ricky Lake speak, this isn't going to be a self help blog honest!) and give in to the call of the wanderlust.

I have a one-way ticket to Mumbai leaving on Monday 12th March, and another plane ticket from there to Trivandrum in Kerala, south India. I have made no arrangements but I plan to go overland back up to Mumbai and fly from there to Bangkok to do an overland trip around Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. After that I'm heading to South Korea to teach English with a couple of friends for a year. After that, who knows. Just like Jack Kerouac, I'm going On The Road.