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| All our gear...or most of it anyway. |
I thought I'd give you guys a visual right off the bat of what we're dealing with here.
The next photo you'll see is of me screaming in desperation knowing that I have 6 days to be completely ready for our trip.
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But we do only have 6 days until we need to be completely ready to leave and that does cause some stress.
The feelings I have besides stress are...excitement, apprehension, I'm feeling impatient, nervous, and I'm pretty much just ready to be done with all the planning and packing and research and planning and packing and research and start seeing all the cool things I've been reading about.
I'm trying to think of things to write about, but my brain is swirling and twirling and I can't seem to catch any of the thoughts long enough to write about them.
The "lists" are getting shorter though! That's some good news! I only have a few more things to buy....socks...and...ummm...I'll have to look at my list.
I still have to pack up stuff we won't be using or taking with us, I have to get ALL of our stuff out of the house of the generous Parent-in-laws, I'm still trying to find places to stay along our way (so check out our route tabs) to keep more cash in our pockets, and I'm trying to find and decide on all of the cool things I want to see and do.
You probably can't see it very well, but we just spulurged and bought a Macbook Air. It's pretty. We will start a list...another list of all the things we're taking and I'm hoping...hoping, hoping that we'll be able to keep track of what we used and how often we used it as well as what we didn't use at all. I'm looking forward to seeing what we didn't use.
We have sooo much stuff! If we didn't have camping stuff...(I hear there is good camping in South America)...we wouldn't have as much stuff. I should take a picture of how much stuff we would take if we didn't have camping stuff. We'd probably just have clothes....I could take more clothes!! As it is, I am taking 1 pair of pants, 1 pair of shorts, one skirt and 5 shirts. That's it. For any of you that know me, well, you know I'll be suffering for cute clothes and shoes. You probably won't realize it unless you always read the blog and see me wearing the same thing everyday....oh, wait, I will be wearing the same thing everyday. I'll be wearing my same pants and jacket and soon you'll all be able to tell me where they're starting to wear.
I'm afraid you'll be able to see the wear on me as well....wrinkles, tan, no tan, white hairs, weight...whatever wear you see in me, please, don't tell me.
Sleep is very important at this stage in our trip planning. It's imperitive for keeping our good humor and calmness. So is TV. It's a de-stresser. So, I'm going to watch some TV and then I'm going to sleep.
