In an earlier Era, there used to be this task.

It turns out that annaone, Loki and Spidere did that with me as the guinea pig.



Me? Journey? Here?! An emergency situation allright. And I'm alone, see? Hey, Ben made a logo and all, but the whole MXZero is me.

And of course I said ohboy-hell-yes! And Journey did indeed happen.



Organization, you say? Well, Dax gave me tons of advice. And Spidere-The-Legendary-Journey-Maker gave me access to his wikis, files, checklists, maps and budgets. You guys have no idea. A true JTTEOTN for Dummies. Step by step fool-proof. But now, how much of that did I actually followed? Little.
´Cause there is this thing called I'm-not-in-the-same-league-as-you-guys-are-in-terms-of-networking-and-people-here-doesn´t-really-function-like-that? Maybe. ´Cause he's smart and I'm dumb and there is nothing I can do about it? Maybe too.



BUT, against all disorganizational odds, there was a webpage and a Facebook group and a Facebook event and mailing-lists-of-likeminded-people that were thoroughly informed of the event.
I honestly doubt that any of that helped much. But there were also flyers pasted to trees and bus stops and University halls and bulleting boards. And word of mouth, in both the old-fashioned actually-talking-on-the phone kind and email versions. I think those worked nicely, with a low batting average, but still.
In any case, the meta-narrative of the whys and hows of Journey success in such and such social settings are not really my thing: I'm sure the scholars will go through it if it happens to be of any interest.

What I really want to say about Journey, in this oh-so-generous-space that SSI had being kind enough to grant me (I mean, a real, official, 45 point task!) is what appears on the notes I scribbled the day after Journey.

Spidere's hug at the airport and sunrise: sleep deprived and yet extremely happy time.
Serious chase: injury, danger, Stockholm syndrome.
SFZero royalty eyes: so beautiful gree/blue/green but realy more than color the spark, the warmth.
Painfully clear this split-life of mine, this explanation about schizophrenia and SF0 saving my life.
-Luis: awesome smiling lead runner, mountain climber.
-Oliver: brought lots of people
-Stories! Routes, ribbons slipping, faces
-Diana saving the night

And really, what can be put fully in words, that if Journey is possible to come together as it did then I really could actually turn my life around, defend it

-My kids the dog, I wonder who did they see standing there and talking to people
-The white Tyvek suit. Becoming susy who is bold and brave and even awesome. Skipping rocks, telling Loki and anna one what to do (!!!).
-And susy found the right tone, right words for the ones that showed up, we locals are this way
-The failures that didn´t much matter and the end: bonus checkpoint, clues.
-Police officer talked into signing manifests. Buy scouts volunteering to.
-A party of doing, strange ´cause we were each alone and blocks away, Thomas even out os reach by phone, and yet everybody doing the right thing, movements balancing out, everything working out at the very last minute
-That was JourneyMX for you, SF0: the most unlikely materializing by love and crazy trust. I truly love you guys.

(Oh, you came here looking for actual Journey documentation? Um, OK, here, have a video. I have no idea if it works at all for people that wasn´t there, or for people that was, really. But hey, it does it for me: from scouting to I-can´t-believe-we-did-it-holy-cow-it worked-total-strangers-showed-up-and-everyone-was-really-having-so-much-fun! Maybe it is worth to say that I'm primarily HC after all? As a disclaimer of sorts? Anyway, it was beyond great. I do have crazy friends, lucky me. Thanks to all).