Pack­ing Completed

I had planned to write a great post about pack­ing, but I was busy doing just that. Pack­ing. Oh well. I bet half of you weren’t that inter­ested in know­ing how many under­wear I was tak­ing any­way (the answer is obvi­ously seven).

I’m tak­ing my big back­pack, as usual, as well as a small shoul­der bag. Noth­ing fancy but my whole life is in these bags, hence the two hours spent metic­u­lously bag­ging, clean­ing, check­ing and clos­ing. Phew.

Peo­ple have been ask­ing me “have you packed already?” for at least two weeks. I replied very politely, “no, not yet” to most of them. But trust me, at the end, I was that close to yelling: “no I haven’t! How on earth can you pack weeks ahead? I’m a back­packer, not a fuck­ing mover!”. Of course, I haven’t actu­ally said that to any­one but I seri­ously won­der how can one pack that early. Don’t you use your tooth­brush, your soap etc. until the morn­ing you leave?

So we are leav­ing tomor­row morn­ing. We have a long trip ahead of us and I should be get­ting some sleep but I’m way too ner­vous. Not scared. Ner­vous. I quit four days ago and I already feel like an out­cast, in a nice kind of way. I don’t have a rou­tine any­more and I don’t have a plan. We are free. Woohoo!

Mean­while, it got really cold here, down to –15 today with a really bad wind­chill. I’m not going to miss the win­ter but I won­der how I will feel tomor­row when we arrive. I don’t think I have ever expe­ri­enced such a tem­per­a­ture difference.

Any­way, I will be blog­ging reg­u­larly so stay tuned for news from Cen­tral Amer­ica. Off to bed…

It was –20C today…

Shov­el­ing snow

All cleared!

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