Packing Out My Trash

Possessions

I've decided to store all of my worldly possessions at my parents while I travel. One of my bros (Alex) is at uni in Lincoln freeing up most of a room.. the task now is to once again move all my stuff from A to B and i have until mid January to do that! So the boxes are out and the sorting has begun! Constantly reminding me of the epic adventure and challenge that lies ahead.


Ever Closer

Now that Christmas has passed and I have time off from work to breathe its beginning to feel like a daunting countdown to a jump into the unknown world. Though I don't think thats what I find daunting, I think that feeling comes from the fact I'm doing it alone... leaving behind everyone and everything I've ever known. For a whole year. But this is whats behind the excitement too - that builds up inside. This is the price of freedom - in it's most extreme form!

Fifty-three days... less than two months!

I can't wait to sleep in random hostel rooms, savor the exotic foods, breathe in the humid sea breeze, try and snap dangerous wildlife, exchange perspectives and opinions on the world with locals and strangers, I can't wait to tell people about my home.


Countdown List

So For January I have an extensive list of things to do and buy...

- Visit family
- Complete paying for round the world trip at STA (£820 to go)
- Extra passport photos
- Open Nationwide account
- Finish transferring stuff to mp3/media player
- Buy accessories for mp3/media player
- Buy final pieces of kit
- Scan and email vital documents and information to self
- Buy some good reading material ( Sophie's world by Jostein Gaarder,
Chariots of the gods by erich von daniken)
- Buy Malaria drugs
- Hand in notice at work :c(
- Complete CV
- Move possessions
- Have medical check over
- Buy world sim card
- Write to student loans company
- Return library travel books... ehum..
- Learn some Spanish and Thai?
- Organise some form of leaving par-tay!


Medical

Due to an excessive amount of iodine tablets/droplets for christmas (used for water purification in sounth america and Thailand) I'm going to take back some of them to the Castle Mountain Moor hiking shop and exchange them for the neutralising tablets. I've also had to work out the amount of water, on average consumed by a human - to work out how many tablets are required!

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/water/NU00283

So, on average it'll be 2 to 3 litres a day... for 1 month in Thailand and 2 months in South America thats 90 days... about a max of 270 litres of water. So thats at least:

- 1x Iodine droplets, 1x Iodine tablets
- 4x Neatralising tablets
- 4x Chlorine tablets

http://www.cmmonline.co.uk/departments/default.asp?catL=3760&catH=3769