Palegoldenrod

Those of you who know me (or used to know me) would have at some point become sick of me banging on about going overseas. I’ve been talking about it … well, forever I think, and especially wistfully since the start of this year. It is finally happening.

I’ve sorted the big preparatory things – giving work the heads up, preparing my house to be rented, rough travel plans. And early next year I am off to South America.

So the idea is to take the opportunity to leave as many things behind as possible (literally and figuratively) and travel with nothing – I don’t speak any other languages, I know one person in Chile (my cousin Dane) and I will probably be traveing alone, and I’ll have nothing but my backpack and my fiddle.

Let’s just say its been a long time coming and I’m keen to get going.

I’ve yet to organise the little things: my vaccinations (uurgh); there are some renovations that need to be completed on my house; turfing or selling the useless stuff in my house and storing those things that have sentimental value (surprisingly little I’m happy to say); buying that Round the World plane ticket (to be done when I have someone settled into the house).

I’ll keep you posted on the details as things start to become more concrete.

To make you jealous, here are some flickr pics of some places I hope to be standing in next year: