The trip

Record of my adventures / food diary
Covering gap year travels and my year abroad in Mexico!
....And now also providing procrastination from my internship

Thursday 31 March 2011

What would I do without mummy?

Probably never even have booked flights!
Mom seems to have this special ability to go through a massive pile of clothing and reduce it to like 20 things for me to pack! Genuinely don't think packing would have been possible without her! lol
Only issue now is how am I going to cope on my own?! ;)
Anyways, only 1 day to go now, leaving nice and early tomorrow morning from Heathrow for LA. But all is good as I have checked the in-flight movies for the trip!

Tuesday 29 March 2011

£60 later.....

Well, what a way to spend my birthday by having my last injection yesterday - yellow fever - a real bargain at only £45 but better safe than sorry. Wait what's that? I'm not even going to any yellow fever danger areas? Then why have I just paid that much for a jab I don't really need - basically just need the certificate to enter Ecuador from Peru! Yay! Now, today is probably just paranoia, but feel like I'm dying - sore throat, everything hurts, runny nose and I'm sooooo cold!
Then on top of that went to pick up my malaria tablets for £15 after being charged £2, by the only ATM in Wing, to actually get the money out. But it's all worth it in the long run ..... oh yeah not actually going to any Malaria areas = Plan B/just in case.
Then to really put the icing on the cake the scary travel nurse who did my yellow fever jab told me that my travel nurse was wrong and I should have also had Hep B course of 3 jabs for the eventuality of severe injury, blood transfusion and resulting Hep B! Wooo, as if I didn't have enough to worry about! ;)

Sunday 27 March 2011

5 days to go....

Not long now till I'm off yet as usual am totally not sorted yet! I think it may have been mentioned before that organization is not my strong point, in fact maybe not even a point at all! ;)
Most important of all, somehow have to work out what to take and then how all that stuff aka my life for 4 and 1/2 months is going to fit into one little rucksack?! This should be interesting...