Though this sounds like the definition of a spirit of adventure, there is also the niggling worry that we will arrive in Palm Springs to find... nothing.
Niggling trade disputes over hormones in beef, genetically modified organisms and American trade sanctions on Cuba and Iran argue for a new way of avoiding future rows.
This, his aides say, means he cannot answer for the moment such niggling questions as whether he accepts the very concept of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Overworked Ganson soon lost his patience with the players' misdemeanours and sent Bradford's Ben Jefferies to the sin-bin for persistent holding before doing the same to Lee Radford for a niggling foul.
London Irish open-side flanker Steffon Armitage will also travel to Paris as cover for the back row, with Johnson stressing that it was a precautionary move because of a number of "niggling injuries".
But when the Israelis finally left, the Lebanese government not only failed to send its army to patrol the border, but also refused to give the peacekeepers the go-ahead, citing niggling border disputes.
The Blue Samurai, unchanged for their fourth straight World Cup match, sat deep and attempted to snuff out the opposition, while their opponents conceded a series of niggling fouls every time Japan looked to strike on the counter.
MacDonald will miss the trip to Wasps in the Premiership due to jetlag and a niggling leg injury, but is expected to be in contention for the LV Cup clash with Leicester Tigers on 8 November at Headingley.
Late in the evening, Eddie phoned to say that Tan Siew Sin wanted amendments included whereby we would take over the guarantees that the central government had given the IMF and the World Bank for loans granted to Singapore, a niggling detail.
But of course the truth is this story began centuries ago, when horsemen descended to the plains from a lost kingdom called Futa Djallon, long before Europe's map makers turned their minds to the niggling problem of how to fill those blank spaces.
Lurking behind Mr Ibrahim's worthy aims is the niggling sense that the money amounts to an annual bribe - a bribe for not accepting bribes - dangled like a fat carrot in front of the continent's elites, in the hope of steering them towards the sort of behaviour that should surely be taken for granted.
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