It's been a while

My doesn't time fly when you're waiting for a big trip to come around ;)

Today marks 62 work days left *bounce*. I'm sure I'll miss it somewhat when I'm on the road, but I really can't wait to finish up and not have to think about oncall and whether I'm free to work in 17 weeks time. I'm sure I'll struggle with the lack of regime a little bit, but I'm excited about the challenge. I'm either super organised, or super lazy - 100% commitment in either direction, but never been too good with down the middle. I'm hoping to work on that!

My camera has arrived and is very swish and beautiful. I severely struggled with it the first day I tried to use it and ended up with every photo being a blurry mess. I couldn't work out how to set a shoot mode on it (really should have read the manual first) but I've eventually got there and managed to get some non-blurry, very clear images, so I'm a happy camper. Next item on the wish list is a netbook to bring along with me. (Conor's just bought one and I'm tempted to 'borrow' it). As much as I'd love to be able to leave my inner (and sometimes outer) nerd behind, I'm not sure I could function without a computer for the three months of the bus trip. I reckon it'll be handy for entertaining me on the days we're driving for 18 hours, for sorting out my good photos from my crappy ones, keeping a journal (though I'm very tempted to keep a physical one that gets stained with coffee and whatever else along the way) and for getting emails and blog posts ready on the road for mail at the next stop along the way.

I've still not done anything about a new passport - really need to get onto that. Because I'm being so laid back about sorting that I've not done anything about Visas either. Though on the Visa front I don't know what I can do until OzBus provide some kind of itinerary for the trip. All well and good using the itinerary off their website and calculating days that way but I'm sure that's all very much subject to change and may not be valid any more. The one thing that I have done is started some research into vaccinations - now I'm scared!! For the list of countries we should be hitting there are a good few vaccinations recommended/suggested. I did a count of the number of shots we're taking about..and it's 18!! I'm not a happy camper..I hate needles..HATE HATE HATE them. But, I know I need to get them so I've called my GP to try set up a schedule to get them all done in enough time to spread them out and avoid having to get a massive cocktail all in one go. We'll see what she comes back with next week.

The facebook group that I set up for the trip has two new members. It's cool to see other people getting excited about the trip too. I'm looking forward to meeting all of these new people when we get to London..wonder how many of us will stay in touch after the trip.

Loonie has resurfaced at last...she's working herself to the bone to save for the trip. Wish I could say the same about myself!