There’s just three weeks left now before I climb on board a plane on November 30th, take off at 9am, and 15 hours and 20 minutes later land in Bangkok to spend the next six months travelling around pretty much on a whim, visiting historic buildings and sites, sitting in hammocks on beaches, talking to strangers in bars, reading books and writing web sites.
People keep asking me if I’ve packed, and the answer is a resounding yes – Packing for Thailand isn’t hard and even with out my imaculatly planned packing list and collection of shiny new travel gadgets. You can land Bangkok and pick up anything you need within an hour of stepping of the bus at the end of Khaosan Road, so been ready isn’t really an issue. What is an issue however is getting rid of everything I’m leaving behind, the house is very slowly been sorted out, but there is a lot to do and it’s not like you can just drop a couch into the trash, so next weekend some work will need to be done just to get the bulk of everything sorted out since we are out of the house on the 22nd.
Right now all my posting to blogs and website work is still very sparodic, and it’s only when I get settled on the road I’ll figure out a better pattern to the various sites I keep running, while I’m here I’m too busy ignoring house work and hanging out with friends while I can, I keep justifying it by saying it’s because I only have a limited amount of time left in the country for a while, but actually when I come back I’m going to continue to be just as active, I don’t need an excuse to want to banter with Awesome people weather it’s just chilling at home to watch some movies or a marathon run of a TV show like How I Met Your Mother, or just go out on a whim to grab a couple of beers and go see a movie, it all falls into what makes a lifestyle I love, which actually makes heading off to far off lands all the harder, and while in the long run it’ll be worth it I a trying very hard not to think to much about what it’s going to be like leaving all the friends and family I love behind for such a length of time.