Where we're at

This entry is mainly for my own benefit, to clarify what’s been organised so far, and what’s still to be done. Most of this is just re-hashing things I’ve already said, so feel free to ignore if you’re bored 🙂 It just helps to get it all down in one place.

That itinerary gets more exhausting every time I look at it!

Then there’s all the stuff I need to do and get before I go:

• Travel Docs – once Otakuu’s flights are confirmed, can pay for tickets. Need to print off booking confirmations for accommodation and trains, and contact details of hosts. Skyring sending travel journal.
• Luggage – have to decide whether to take suitcase or yellow BC bag (which will be easiest to lug around trains and buses, and have room for everything I’ll need for a month’s travel?). Dad sending me money belt and carry-on backpack suitable for laptop
• Books – have acquired some suitably thin and light books, but need to find some more, for release and for taking to meetups (while remembering I’ve got to lug them around for a month, so I don’t want to take *too* many!).
• Clothes – need to work out what temps to expect in various places (I’ll probably go with the “light layers” technique anyway). Have bought a few bits and pieces, still need to buy new jeans.
• Shoes – will be doing a lot of walking (especially around airports!), so need good comfortable walking shoes. Time to replace my old ones, I think.
• T-shirts – Lytteltonwitch is investigating getting something printed 🙂
• Gifts – more than enough bookstrings made for the goody bags in London and to hand out at meetups. Still need to sort out little gifts for my various hosts (Mum said she’d help with these – confirm with her)
• Phone – have to sort out roaming for the countries I’ll be in. Australia is automatic, but I think the others have to be pre-arranged. Will talk to Vodaphone people at the airport tomorrow when we meet Discoverylover and Sherlockfan.
• Power – need to find a travel plug/adaptor thingy so I can recharge laptop, phone, camera, mp3 player… all the essentials of modern life 🙂
• Money – get enough cash in various currencies for basics. Check out fees for using
  my card overseas.
• Work – make sure boss has my contact details for d-day on the 9th, and CV etc if things start happening before I get back)

I think that’s all the things that have been whirling around my head lately. I’m sure there’s other things I haven’t thought of, but now that I’ve got all this lot written down in one place, it might free up a bit of my brain to remember what else I need to think about 🙂

61 sleeps to go!