After 4 years of intentions and 4 months of serious planning, I’m finally setting off on the round-the-world trip. Flying to Heathrow this afternoon, then St Petersburg early tomorrow morning, it’s finally starting to sink in that I’m going to be responsible for, and answering to, only myself for the next 8 months!
The last year has been the most eventful of my life in a way. I’ve gone from the start of the year, where I was made redundant, had my car bumped in to and got dumped all in the same week (in that order), to teaching myself an A level and organising a pretty big trip. I’ve worked 2 jobs, sold a lot of my possessions and gone through the university application process in a short space of time and if anything this trip might be less intense than the run up to it.
Saying goodbye to everyone has been pretty bad, I’ve been realising how many people I’m going to miss, but I’m trying to remind myself how tired I am of my current situation generally, and how much I want to see things other than the 4 walls of my bedroom in my parents house! Bring on some excitement.
I’m looking forward to seeing my mate Bob from Loughborough days later tonight. Hopefully we’ll have a fairly chilled evening as the thought of a 07:30 flight to St Petersburg on Thursday with a hangover does not appeal. I think Chris’ uni mates will have other ideas for that though but maybe he’ll have something to say about it considering he probably feels pretty rough this morning going by last night. Getting him-self barred from Lloyds for his efforts.
Anyways, I don’t know who of you will be reading this but I’m writing it for myself to be honest. I want to keep this page as a reminder of the whole trip and my thoughts. It might be boring for the rest of you ;-) Hopefully I’ll make the time to update it fairly regularly anyway. I’ve included some pics of the leaving do mainly to figure out how all this works.
