Heading out tomorrow!

As I believe many of you know, I am heading out tomorrow for a two month-long drive around the SouthWestern states. From there, three weeks in Florida, and a week in Honduras (to learn to scuba).

As such, this is going to primarily contain updates concerning my journey and experiences thereof for the next three months. I will also be uploading bunches of pictures to flickr, and linking them. As is perhaps obvious, updates and picture uploads will be bursty, as it will only be possible when I have network access through my laptop, and time.

I am nervous, excited, and expecting-to-miss-but-not-yet-missing my people here.

Night before...

I find it very difficult to sleep the night before embarking on a trip involving many things I have wanted to do for years, for which some pieces have been in some form of embryonic planning stage for years.

Excited/hopeful, mostly, and nervous/scared in there too. Quite tired, of course.

I had a taste of missing metahacker tonight while cuddling. There was a distinct thought of 'I will miss this, right here. Very much.'

I will certainly miss the kitty, of course.

And the time off has given me far more interaction with galaneia with which to appreciate and therefore miss her.

People I do not see every day will take longer to miss. But I'm sad I did not see hfcougar today before she vannished. I'm sure I'll have times of thinking of jasra, esp in Colorado.

The month between work and leaving was needful, as were the few days at the meditation retreat, the first thing in my list of things I've wanted to do for years that I recently did.

Also, still no data from Brandeis.

Now, meditate until I sleep, or until I give up. Being too warm is probably not helping.