if i had written this before i started, it would have been a long ramble. now it doesn’t make sense to rehash it all. but i will cite a few salient points.
it took over six months of research and planning to:
- decide on gear
- learn, more or less, how to use said gear
- decide on clothing (which was a whole new arena for me who had never heard of “technical clothing”)
- figure out which apps were necessary
- learn, or at least start to learn, how to use said apps
- make travel arrangements, at least for the beginning stages
- get the right shoes and break them in
- decide on a blog name and start a blog
- pack – or rather, move from chaos to order, learning to condense one’s life into one relatively small, compact and organized bag
- re-pack, reduce, mail stuff to the end of the line
- manage not to exercise or to get prepared physically
- get shorn (in more ways than one, but particularly of the hair on my head)
- arrive at my destination, which is my starting point…
thank you to everyone who helped along the way and who put up with my incessant questions and blather.