Prologue 1: 10 days to go

Where are the days going?

I'd like to say that I am super excited about my upcoming vacation to the other side of the world, but at the moment, I'm more gripped with fear than anything. Not because I'm worried about being so far away from home or anything, Ive been and done this almost a million times already (slight exaggeration but not too far off the mark) but in the next ten days I have to gather my stuff and be ready to jump on that plane on Sunday week with everything I need to survive out there till mid January.

There are a few dozen printouts that need to be made, winter clothes need to be dredged out, my Passport needs to be located, adapters need to be packed .... it really shouldn't be too tough, but then you look at next weeks schedule, which is kinda terrifying.
I won't go into it fully, but there's a chance I'll be packed and ready to go by Thursday next week because there won't be enough time to scratch on the weekend before I fly out.

The AUD is a constant worry at the minute too. I know there isn't a single thing I can do about it, but I can't help but check it every couple of hours. I gotta stop doing that 'cause all it's doing is adding to the stress levels (currently 1USD = 0.6887AUD)

As for this page .... I decided to jump off mySpace for this trip and try something completely different, although I will try and upload some gear back to it later, all the fresh stuff will end up here (as long as I can remember the username and password for this one ... I forgot the last blogspot one)

The itinerary will be up soon ..... watch this space ....