Wednesday, 17 September 2008

creeping up on me

Just realized I'm leaving in less than two weeks. ahhh! I feel totally unprepared. When we went to the Gambia, we left a week after we arranged the trip and somehow that was okay. Having had so much time to plan and organize this trip has made it way more stressful because I feel like there's so much I could be doing that I haven't thought of. There isn't. Can't book anything online. Can't get in touch with any more people. It's just: pack, take out the uncomfortably large sum of money that I'll have to carry as my only resource for two months (not looking forward to that) and get on the plane. And hope that the hovercraft to Freetown is running - I am not taking the helicopter! In other words, it's time to leave things up to chance. Which of course I hate to do.

5 comments:

Plain Jane said...

AHH! Less than 2 weeks!! So scary!

chrysanthemum said...

it sounds like it will definitely be an adventure!

re: the cash, probably you've already worked all this out, but try to split it up into a few packets.

multiple wallets (including a "fake" wallet or two with a small but believable amount of cash) are also a good idea--in a really bad situation (i.e., robbery or extreme price gouging in an emergency) you can give someone "everything you have!!!" (in that one wallet)...

keep in touch!

Bron said...

testing...

Plain Jane said...

Yay! How is Africa so far?

Unknown said...

We need updates!! :)