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title: "About this website"
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date: 2024-07-28
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name: "About"
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weight: 255
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{{< contact-box >}}
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Hi! I'm Pim and I'm writing this on Sunday July 28th of 2024.
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As of today, I've been working at Google for about 18 years now. I started in 2006, and have had
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the most wonderful time so far! In the Summer of 2024, I decided to take a little break. Thanks to
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the awesome support of my manager and the teams I work with, my request for a Sabbatical was
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approved and the date set for the 29th of July through the 3rd of November, just over three months
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of time off.
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If you follow on any form of social, you'll know that I like to write. My website
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[[IPng.ch](https://ipng.ch/s/articles/)] is full of nerdy stories. But this website serves a
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different purpose. Because a sabbatical is something that not many people have the privilege to be
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able to do, and because I plan on doing only one of these in my life, I've decided to mark my
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travels with a little story and some pictures of every day of my time off.
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I've done this before, notably learning from my mom. When we used to go on vacation, she would
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scribble little stories of the day in a notepad, and I would sometimes help out with that. After I
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left the house, I kept up the habit in my own travels. Here's a few examples:
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* 2010: Roadtrip from New York to Los Angeles -- [[Travel Blog](https://2010roadtripnyla.weirdnet.nl/)]
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* 2013: Roadtrip to the UK and Ireland -- [[Travel Blog](https://2013roadtripukie.weirdnet.nl/)]
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* 2022: Roadtrip to the North Cape -- [[Travel Blog](https://2022roadtripnose.weirdnet.nl/)]
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When I was in Norway I hiked Besseggen, which was a truly majestic albeit physically rough
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experience, it took us about 10 hours. I had hiked this trail may times before, and I remember this
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one time that I hiked it alone as a teenager, and it not being ... as long. So I called my mom, she
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sifted through her travel journals, and read back to me the log entry of me getting up at 6am and
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returning to the campsite at around noon. This logbooks and journals mean a lot to me personally,
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and from time to time I will float away and re-read the 2010 New York to LA roadtrip, or the fun we
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had at the Swindon Roundabout in 2013, or indeed, the hike to the Real North Cape in 2022.
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This is why I've decided to write about the things I plan on doing during my sabbatical. I do expect
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to read it in the future, just as I have done the other journies I took the time to document. The
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site, in other words, is more for me than it is for you, but you're welcome to read along :)
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