This New Year's is going to be rather sedate, I'm afraid. There's not much happening here in Sedona, Arizona. I'm going to be at home with a close friend and it's going to be very low key. We'll just have some great food and a good bottle of champagne to see in the new year.

I don't know if it's a testament to the capricous nature of my life or the fact that I've been lucky enough to travel around a bit, but I haven't spent New Year's in the same place twice in a row since I was in college. This is where I've been for the last ten New Year's Eves:

2002 - Apia, Samoa
2001 - Rio de Janiero, Brazil
2000 - San Francisco, CA
1999 - An island in the middle of the Nile, South of Aswan, Egypt
1998 - Puerto Angel, Mexico
1997 - Buckhead, Atlanta, GA (working at Cafe Tu Tu Tango)
1996 - Santa Cruz, CA
1995 - Los Angeles, CA
1994 - Bangkok, Thailand
1993 - Melbourne, Australia

I highly recommend Rio for New Year's. There's nothing in the world like the party that's thrown at Copacabana. At least nothing I've seen.

Happy New Year!