Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Prologue: Part 2- Made Lists

So we find ourselves several weeks after our first post and things are actually starting to move. We have our working visa's for the UK. The turn around time was a long and draining 1 working day. Yes, you read that right. We were warned from the start that the visas could take a full 3 months to come back. Well I guess the UK must just really like us and want to have us over there...maybe.

We find that we've finally made those lists that we were talking about last post. I mucked around with some informal written lists. It turns out Drew is even more anal than I knew. After sticking my lovely colourful hand written lists on the wall Drew decided that it needed to be done properly and promptly replaced them with widely spaced, well designed printed lists. I think this is an introduction to a part of his psyche that I didn't know about.

We are at about 6 and a half weeks from our depart date and we are at the silly point where I couldn't tell you if we are making good time on our packing and organising or if we are woefully behind. Injections are next week and it looks like we have to get all of them at once. That's going to be one massively numb arm. I've also, not yet, given notice at my second job, they might suspect something when I can't even lift my arm to serve customers next week. Well at least I know I am giving notice to them next friday. That means I can stop stressing about it then and continue...packing

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Prologue: Part 1 - Making Lists

I guess it all starts with typing something... Now that has been done I suppose we can begin.


It took us about an hour and a half just to come up with the name for this blog. "Pack the Planet" was Prue's suggestion, a play on words originating from the quote "Hack the Planet" from the mid 90's movie 'Hackers'. We were leaning towards "Loosing Face" because we know that was something we'd have to try very hard not to do while travelling through Asia. We threw around a few other silly names before eventually settling for "pack the planet" cause...Y'know...we're backpackers... and we...um...are travelling around the planet... Yeah.

It is about 9 weeks now until we leave and we still have quite a lot of things to organise. We sent away our Visa applications today and we have begun the arduous task of sorting out all of the shit that we have accumulated over the years as we begin to pack everything for storage, throw away the crap that we really dont need and never ever use yet seem to manage to keep holding onto even though it serves no purpose at all. Eventually all our worldly possesions will need to fit into two very fucking heavy backpacks.

Looking around our tiny apartment as we type this it is easy to be overwhelmed at the scope of the task of getting ready, but luckily for us Prue has been quite busy making lists...