Across the Andes by Blog

Strange at 4am I decide to put pen to paper or these days keyboard to screen and begin to write about my days and thoughts of our year ahead. I am wide awake out of sync with our time zones. Yesterday was my numb day….saying goodbye to my family and a week of saying goodbyes to friends was difficult.  My Cancerian nature is on overload of senses and if I could only have an outpour of crying would have felt much better….instead tears bottled up and leaked all the way on the plane across the Pacific.  Tears of sadness, fears, anxieties, trepidation (especially for me leaving behind my medical security blanket which has given me annual reassurance after my cancer 8 years ago).
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It has been 6 years since our last backpacking travel being Burma and that was only for 3 weeks, so we, correction, I, was a little out of practice.  I just was not ready to start our adventure.  Needed at least another week to have that complete sense of preparation. But the fact that we had decided on the spur of the moment in late August and booked our flights within a day of the decision, did not really give us the necessary time to finalise our jobs, prepare a house for rental, move and sort our life into boxes, let alone cull our lives into a backpack for 12 months.  It is a race against the clock.
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