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The forgotten

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

I did such a great job packing before I left, I only forgot one thing that was semi-critical, a towel. After traveling for 40 hours the one thing I wanted to do is take a shower and I was a lucky one, I had one, It didn’t have a shower curtain, but it had hot water.

No towel.

Hitting myself, forgetting something so simple. I tried to find something to use, and so became my Luna Form t-shirt towel. I used that shirt and another t-shirt I had brought for my towels the whole trip.

The day I left, I was talking to one of my house mates about it and she started to laugh, “you should have ask, I have extra towels”.

And we are off…

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Well, I am off…
It was a day of running around but I got what I could get done, done.
Meindert asked me yesterday if I was traveling light, I answered “yes”.
Well, I need to rethink that answer. I am not traveling light. Honestly, I do not know how it all got to weight so much, but it has.

In other news, I met with Gail today and she has given me a list of contact and orphanages that I will visit. It is all starting to feel real now. 13 visits in total and I hoping to spend a day looking for animals. We, will see how it all goes.

Big thanks to Lisa and the kids for sharing this dream with me. It has been a lot of work on everyone.

I will update as soon as I can.

Lets Go Solar

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Well, yesterday was a fantastic day when it can to new power solutions for my trip. My ASI rep from (Source 4) Ken stopped by with a small solar bag that Gemline has donated for my trip. I am ecstatic about this because my camera batteries will charge with this setup nicely.

He also had 3 crank flashlights for me to take with me. One of them has a USB power out on it and during my quick tests I was able to start charging my ipod from the crank…