Update

I'm closing in on my departure date but I haven't been sitting around. I completed a course to prepare me for a network+ certification test. The instructor was a Verizon employee. ( We had some common acquaintances.) After taking the class I knew I better line up the certification test pretty quick before what I had learned would drift.... I scheduled ( and paid) for the test. I took it at Bucks County Community College. It's a pass or fail and I passed. I'd like to build on that by taking two more essential certification tests. Not until later though. After my upcoming bike building my educational finances will have run out for the first time in my life.
As to the frame building I intend to take a laptop and update this blog with the goings on there. I'll take the camera and post pictures to my picasa site. During the course of the class I expect to learn about and build a bike frame that will fit me. Once I get it home I will have a lot to do with it including paint, and equip. Between the two weeks I am out there I hope to rent a car and travel to Eugene and tour the Bike Friday ( folding bikes) factory. I also hope to do some sightseeing. I'll be staying in a hostel while schooling and hope to enlist others to come along. Stay tuned to this site as I hope to post more frequently the next two weeks.