Hi all , before we start, I do believe you should all go buy the new dave matthews and tim reynolds in las vegas cd, if for nothing else, the acoustic version of kashmir. Sorry just needed to show my dave love. So , it's the day before we leave and ...well I've been packed for hours now..I'm ready to go, knowing that I have probably forgotten something, I almost forgot to pack underwear, too old to do the commando thing..oh oh oh try not to picture it..yeah I know not pretty. I was able to cram everything into 1 backpack, so I'm only going to take a small day pack with me on the plane. ( I sort of wonder sometimes whether anyone cares about these sort of things..cause for the most part I'm not sure I would, but It's our blog so....I guess I can be as boring as I want to be)
So we leave tomorrow around 2 and get to San Francisco at about 4pm and then we have 8 hours there, so we think we might go down to fishermans wharf and do touristy stuff. We leave SF at just after midnight and get to Hong Kong around 6am the NEXT DAY, I think it's 15 hours in the air...blah blah blah , wow almost boring myself, ok we get into Jakarta at about 2pm on monday mar 15 with our backpacks hopefully. I 'm not sure about Carrie, but I have a hard time sleeping on planes , so I'm not sure how much sleep I'm going to get by the time we get there. We have booked a hotel in Jakarta for 2 days when we get there, so we can recover from the flight and maybe plan what we want to do from there.
Speaking of sleep..probably not going to get much of that tonight either, it's almost addictive, the feeling I get when I travel, especially this time, because I have never been to Indonesia before and well.... it's not the most stable country in the world. To be honest though, everywhere I have gone has never been as bad as people have said it would be, and well ... I think that's the whole point of travel, to get you out of your comfort zone, to experience things out of the ordinary and see how you react, to learn things about yourself..ok cliche, but to be a better person and really isn't that what we're all trying to do?
Oh what the hell , .. I'm a little tipsy.. Carrie has been the best wife ever, I drag her around the world to these 3rd world countries with sketchy sanitation, large sharks, bugs, bugs and more bugs and she has always been willing to be by my side...maybe not real comfortable, but trusting me enough to go through the experience with me, and I love her for that and am always amazed at how lucky I am to have her as my wife. Does this qualify for embarrassing ?
Well that's all for now... hmmmm... not the funniest post in the world...mushroom walks into a bar and says hey bartender, can I get a pint of beer? bartender says we don't serve mushrooms here!! mushroom says; hey come on , I'm a fun guy (funghi).
Buahaha, I'm amused by it, even if no one else is. I was impressed with your packing. My family takes pride in our ability to pack lightly, but we also (except for my dad) generally pack the day of. We're all pretty darn spacey. You guys did it light AND ahead of time, so it wasn't just light because you forgot half the stuff you wanted to bring. Plus I'm jealous of your backpacks. :)
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