There's lots to do before I hit the road. I wish I had taken more time to plan my trip or left more time in the US before my flight to Cancun. I am still hard at work at my job so there is little time to prepare. I am also getting oddly depressed and experiencing low energy- so not me. The goal over the next few days is to sell the remainder of my furniture and pack up my clothes. When I drove home for Christmas, it took almost three hours to pack my Civic. This time I want to load up in one hour so I can get to Providence by dinner time. I want to enjoy a meal with Lauren and Liz.
I am making copies of credit cards, my passport and travel documents. I have taken all the recommended shots; the one I missed was rabies, I just hope I don't have a run in wild a rapid dog. Giving my notice at work was the biggest obstacle, next is selling the remainder of my furniture and fitting the rest into my car. Finishing the DC / E&A chapter of my life is hard, but it is creating new opportunities. I would like to have a travel partner, but the time alone will be good too.
"All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself." ~ Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"
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