I’m headed down to Richard Branson’s Necker Island for the week, starting Sunday. A few months back after my Google Zeitgeist speech, a fellow from Virgin approached me to speak at a CEO summit on a private island. Perhaps the perfect storm (pray for no storms), I couldn’t turn down the opportunity to do two things I truly love: speak to large groups about major trends, and build sand castles.

I’ve been to a lot of places around the world, but none that I’ve been this excited to see in a very long time — seeing that I’d never throw down the money to go here on my own, this seems like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity (unless they invite me back). I’ll do my best to do some in-depth posts about the island experience with pictures and the like; word on the street is Richard has the whole place WiFi-ed so I can geek out. Gotta go pack my sunscreen!