If you've been following our posts you'll probably know that the last blog was all about everything being sorted....hire cars, hotels and flights all booked....people to see and things to do before we go is pretty much tied up too....packing the last of our belongings is happening in the bestest, randomest order it can (as its been left to me)... Having everything tied up is great...and obviously there is still stuff we have to do...some phone calls for change of address and actually shipping our belongings to the in-laws for storage in their loft... but that cant happen yet....not unless i wanna be sleeping on a blowup bed for the next 9 weeks...
So the big thing now is the waiting.
Knowing there isn't really anything standing between us and the trip of a lifetime except time itself is a real bummer...
Everyone remembers being a kid in the back of their parents car.....a couple of hours day trip used to seem like an eternity...."Are we there yet?" Drove them mad...
My nan used to say "Dont wish your tomorrows away. It takes the fun out of today". Clever bird my nan. Its true too. Since we booked everything all Iv wanted to do is go...just pack up and leave. The mundane humdrum of work everyday. The relentless british weather (four seasons in one day). Ha.
But what about what iv got here and now. A lovely house in a lovely place, brill friends and family and my boys...my lovely boys. im gonna miss it all.
Seriously...I think I can honestly say Iv never been so scared in my life about a day trip....ok so its slightly longer than a day trip, but u get my drift. Giving everything up to go to a country Iv never seen before. (other than on telly or in a film...and we all know how accurate they are). A country pretty much as far away as you can get before you start coming back again. Where the weather is even more unpredictable as it is here. Real cowboys, on horses, with guns..(the cowboys not the horses) with more diversity than my tiny mind can imagine...and it can imagine a lot ill have you know...white people, black people, yellow, brown and green people. (well we are going to Roswell). All colours, races and creeds...all in one place...a pretty big place ill give you, but still...But i still wanna go now....
Am I mad? Probably... but not about this i dont think. Anyone would be daunted by the prospect of selling everything they own, leaving their loving families, friends and canines at home and traipsing across a country that could virtually be classed as hostile...But i wanna go. I really wanna go. And im gonna... soon.
So for now Im still going to work everyday, Im still dodging the British rain and im still walking my boys. And we will go when its time to go and not before. I wanna enjoy my today and not spoil it by wishing it was tomorrow.
So, no...were not there yet...we havent even set off...
Ali
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