{"id":32297,"date":"2018-06-10T20:08:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T00:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/?p=32297"},"modified":"2021-03-25T22:15:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T02:15:08","slug":"one-month-until-i-leave-for-my-trip-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/2018\/06\/10\/one-month-until-i-leave-for-my-trip-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"One Month Until I Leave For My Trip Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"
With only a month left<\/strong> until I leave to begin my journey around the world, I have been busy getting things in order in preparation for my departure. The last two to three weeks have been more hectic than you could ever even begin to imagine. I haven’t had much time to blog lately because I have been so consumed with running errands, picking things up, selling a ton of my belongings, and sorting out which items I will be taking and leaving behind.<\/p>\n I’m realizing as the departure date nears, my anxiety grows exponentially. I am trying to keep myself calm but I can’t help but feel some nervous energy within me from all of the uncertainty that goes along with the decisions I have made.<\/p>\n One thing I am making a point of doing is trying to coordinate plans to see as many of my friends and family as possible before I leave. Obviously, I don’t have a time span for this trip. I could be back the following month after I leave… but what if it turns out to be longer than that?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I just don’t know yet. What if my trip actually DOES turn out to be as long as I originally had planned for it to be? I need to see my friends and family before I leave just in case. Regardless of what happens, I want my friends and family to know how much I love and care about them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now that my departure date is getting closer, I am starting to take packing more seriously. I am slowly transitioning into getting my life to fit inside of a backpack<\/a>. What I can tell you so far is that it is anything but easy. I have a toiletry bag that takes up roughly 1\/3 of the space in my backpack. I have to make big adjustments to figure out how much of everything is going to be enough.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Since time is running low, I am thinking about having a garage sale at my house so I can just unload some of the stuff that has been more difficult to sell online. I have routinely been listing things on eBay. Whatever can’t be recycled or listed for sale and isn’t necessary or important gets thrown out. Purging so many of my belongings has been a therapeutic process.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I survived the week-long Typhoid vaccination process at the end of May. My experience was mostly asymptomatic, thank goodness! Now I am 80% protected from Typhoid for up to 5 years.\u00a0?? Still, it was weird knowing I was voluntarily swallowing attenuated colonies of live salmonella. *throws up*<\/p>\n Regarding Yellow Fever, I haven’t gotten that shot yet and I am still debating whether or not I should.<\/p>\nIt’s Not Goodbye – It’s See You Later<\/h2>\n
Preliminary Packing<\/h2>\n
Selling Things Online<\/h2>\n
Vaccination Update<\/h2>\n