Transitions

We’ve gotten our stuff packed into our suitcases. We’re not shipping anything (a friend had asked me how many crates we were shipping… none). We’re not taking any shoulder bags (another friend asked if we were carrying anything beside the rolling bags… nope). All of what we’re taking has been stuffed into six checked rolling bags and four rolling carry-ons. The rest has either been left with friends or donated to someone with more need for it than we have.

I know that sounds sort of harsh, but we learned a lot on our Survey Trip. Among other things… when traveling through Customs – multiple times – don’t carry anything you don’t have to. It gets heavy. I almost think we might have brought more stuff on our Survey Trip. Just kidding. We have decided that most of what we will need we can get once we arrive, and most of the stuff we would have to ship really isn’t worth shipping.

It’s frightening, but it’s freeing.

Tomorrow – 19 June 2015 – we will drive out of Eugene for the last time for a long time. A week later we will be heading to Thailand with what we have deemed as the most necessary of our worldly possessions; most of our clothes, computers, one guitar and a mandolin, some Christmas decorations, and a few other things to make life in another world just a little more familiar. It’s a very exciting time, to say the least.

Unless something significant comes up, the next time I update this we will be in Bangkok. See you on the other side.