The real one

Written by the person who built this · happening right now · every place in it is real

This is a worked example, not a screenshot — and not fiction. Open it and you are looking at the same page a travelogue gives you: the map, the itinerary, the calendar, the log. It is the author’s own 2026, still mid-flight, which means it shows the one thing a gallery of finished trips never can: what your page looks like while the trip is happening.

Where's Sean? The long way round, then the deserthappening now

Sean — the person who built this site. This is his actual 2026, and it is not finished yet.

Forty days around the planet — out of Wenatchee before dawn, a haircut in Vallejo, Ranger camp in Napa, an A380 over the pole to Doha and on to Bangkok, nine working days on the Gulf of Thailand, a downpour and a ceremony at Wat Pho, three weeks in the East Village with a rush ticket that turned into Row F of Rocky Horror — wheels down at home 11:59 PM, one minute inside Monday. Then the second trip: a one-ton truck, a trailer, and the long haul to Black Rock City, where he is right now. The top of the page names where he is tonight; the bottom of the page has not happened yet, and the countdowns are real.

26 stops · all three tenses at once · an invented mode (one-ton & trailer) · a ferry leg · five closer-in views

Watercolor of the Sanctuary of Truth on the Gulf of Thailand

Watercolor of The Rocky Horror Show at Studio 54

Watercolor of the Moving Day convoy on the playa

What to look at while you’re in there

The dispatch line: The top of the page says where he is tonight and counts down to the next stop. Come back tomorrow and it will have moved without anybody touching it.
All three tenses: Twenty stops have happened and carry their pictures. The Man Burn, the Temple Burn and the road home have not — they are dashed, stamped PROVISIONAL, and counting down. One trip shows you what your page looks like mid-journey, after, and before.
How the lines are drawn: Eleven flight legs arc like great circles; the car legs stay on the ground. The haul to the desert is an invented mode — "one-ton & trailer," with its own glyph and its own line — because the product lets you invent how you travelled.
The closer-in views: The Gulf of Thailand and Black Rock City each cluster tightly enough to deserve their own map. Five hand-built views sit under the main chart.

This page used to hold five invented example trips, written for five invented travellers and fact-checked to within an inch of their lives. They have been retired with honours. The real thing turned out to be the better argument.

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