It’s hard to believe that in less than a month (gulp) we are taking off for the adventure of our lives. We got our shots this weekend, just squeaking under the wire… Had to get Hep A and B and Typhoid. We should get the Tick borne encephalitis vaccine but it’s not available here in the USA because those nasty little ticks aren’t here (thank God). So we might have to get that shot from the good old British public health system when we get there. We are going to pass on the recommended rabies (!) vaccine (don’t you need to get bit first anyway?). Right now it’s lists and lists and shopping online for stuff and trying to comparison shop and research and… lots of details. Jim and I LOVE details, Oh yeah, we eat those puppies for breakfast! Not.
Jim picked up a satellite GPS messenger thingy from Fry’s today. I think what that means is that you will be able to tell where we are (even if we can’t tell where we are). Maybe we will also be able to text from it? As of now we are not taking an iPhone. Or a laptop. Or an iPad. Freaky. But with connectivity being such an issue and with routine shakedowns by border guards… what’s the point? But we still have research to do. I am hoping to write along the way and longhand seems like a real pain to edit later… so that iPad might just hitch along somewhere in our little Panda!