to my friends and family-ish.
in 18 hours i will be leaving. i will not be returning for one month. there will be two weeks in ireland and two weeks in latvia.
i am very excited about this. as a good friend and mentor put it today, i believe i am in a time of discernment and my hope is that this trip will bring a little more clarity to my life, if only a little. not that i'm naive enough to assume that it will be my cure-all, but this will be a trip of stretching and strangely comfortable discomfort.
i have one 55 liter pack and one 15 liter carry on/day pack. the contents include:
two pair of pants, one pair of shorts, swimmers, five pair of socks, six t-shirts, one button down convertable shirt, two longsleeved tech (running or active style) shirts, a fleece, a rain coat, a pair of shoes, and my toiletries and electronics.
oh, and two pair of underwear. don't knock it till you try it.
point being, i have very little stuff, a lot of time, and no one to hold my hand when things get hairy (which they eventually will; i still have three nights without lodging).
i'm asking you for prayer, thoughts, general good vibes in my direction or all of the above. whichever suits your particular mood. financially, my trip is taken care of, partly by my efforts in the past few years, but mostly by the amazing generosity of some of my closest relatives and some spectacular friends in my community. if not for those people, this may not have happened.
at any rate, i will update here and on facebook as often as i can. i have no computer, but i have an iphone. however, i only have 20mb of free data for the month, so i will likely wait till i have access to an internet cafe or wi-fi to update.
thanks for the prayers/thoughts/good vibes in advance.
bye.
i am very excited about this. as a good friend and mentor put it today, i believe i am in a time of discernment and my hope is that this trip will bring a little more clarity to my life, if only a little. not that i'm naive enough to assume that it will be my cure-all, but this will be a trip of stretching and strangely comfortable discomfort.
i have one 55 liter pack and one 15 liter carry on/day pack. the contents include:
two pair of pants, one pair of shorts, swimmers, five pair of socks, six t-shirts, one button down convertable shirt, two longsleeved tech (running or active style) shirts, a fleece, a rain coat, a pair of shoes, and my toiletries and electronics.
oh, and two pair of underwear. don't knock it till you try it.
point being, i have very little stuff, a lot of time, and no one to hold my hand when things get hairy (which they eventually will; i still have three nights without lodging).
i'm asking you for prayer, thoughts, general good vibes in my direction or all of the above. whichever suits your particular mood. financially, my trip is taken care of, partly by my efforts in the past few years, but mostly by the amazing generosity of some of my closest relatives and some spectacular friends in my community. if not for those people, this may not have happened.
at any rate, i will update here and on facebook as often as i can. i have no computer, but i have an iphone. however, i only have 20mb of free data for the month, so i will likely wait till i have access to an internet cafe or wi-fi to update.
thanks for the prayers/thoughts/good vibes in advance.
bye.