T-minus 30 hours and 45 minutes
It struck me as odd yesterday that packing wasn’t difficult at all. You would think that cramming everything one needs for a three-week trip into something small enough to carry on your back the entire time would be at least somewhat challenging. It really makes me appreciate how much space my electronics usually take up. I decided early on that I was going to make this trip as low-tech as possible (hence the blog, heh, though it wasn’t really my idea). Between the four of us we’re only bringing one camera and, with the exception of an iPod or two, nothing else that requires firmware, batteries, or a water-proof carrying case.
However, due to the relative ease of packing, I can’t shake the feeling that I’ve forgotten something fundamentally important and entirely necessary. Aside from massive amounts of paperwork–tickets, itinerary, reference numbers, addresses, documentation–I can’t think of what I could possibly be forgetting. It’s probably nothing, so I should probably stop this rambling cliche that damn near everybody goes through when they are about to leave home for a few weeks.
I still need to make copies of my important stuff and get my travelers cheques (that’s right, I spelled it the canadian way. Though, to be fair, that is how American Express spells it), but in general I think I’m set to go. I even have my books, which I’ve been avoiding reading for almost a week now, to occupy me on the long days of travelling.
We leave for the airport around noon tomorrow and won’t stop travelling until almost midnight (Paris time) on Tuesday. That amounts to around 24 straight hours of terminals and trains and bus stops and small bathrooms.
I hope you all enjoy this though. Besides being a good record of the trip for us it’s an easy way to let everybody know where we are in case something should befall us… knock on wood.
That said, with as little time as we have left in the States, I should probably be doing something more productive.
Cheers!
–Cameron