Wow. It is finally here. . . my trip to Easter Island and Chile! I've wanted to go to Easter Island forever. I can't believe I am actually going. When Kari and I went to Australia and New Zealand, we said that was a trip of a lifetime, then there was Peru and Machu Picchu. . . but here I am again with the third trip of a lifetime in just 3 years!
I've always read about or seen these travel journals and thought I would finally test it out. Rather than sending emails home, I will just keep this journal up to date and you'll be notified by email. You can then send it to whomever you'd like and they can follow along on this trip of a lifetiime.
The planning for this trip has gone unbelievably easy. God is good! He has provided all I have needed to make this trip come true. Easter Island is the most isolated inhabited island on the earth and you know it once you start trying to get there! The plane tickets are booked. The hotel rooms are booked. The hike is booked. I am all set and ready to go. I got my travel insurance today and checked on vaccinations--and am all up to date on those also. So, just time now to count the days down to January 9!!
I hope you will enjoy the journal and that I can do justice to the places, people and things I will see and experience. Machu Picchu was something I thought might not be beat, but I think Easter Island and trekking the W in the Torres del Paine national park in Patagonia will be a close second if not beat it out!
That's all for now. . . my next post will be from Easter Island! :)
The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
