"All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go." Oh how I wish that were true! Packing for a two-and-a-half week long trip to a third-world country on the equator is a very easy thing to do: a couple of pants, a couple shorts, some underwear, a few shirts, sunblock, sunglasses, and some flip-flops; I mean come on, it doesn't get much easier than that?! Things start to get complicated when you're packing a bag full of camera equipment, supplies for the workers on the field, and various other supplies that are necessities for various external purposes. On top of all that, you've gotta love the last-minute tying of up loose ends at work, poorly scheduled pre-trip photography meetings and shoots, and preparing to return to a girlfriend I haven't seen in over two weeks and will be away from for an additional two-and-a-half weeks now. Ah, the stresses of life and travel - I thrive on it (at least the latter of the two)!
I can't speak for the rest of the team, however. One of the problems with traveling often is that it becomes easier and easier to put off the important things until the last minute. When you're going to a new place and you're not used to traveling it's so much easier to dwell on the details and plan and prepare so much further in advance. I like to think that the rest of the team has been packed and ready to go for days, maybe even weeks already! All I know is that I'm getting up at about 5:00am tomorrow (assuming I go to sleep at all) and meeting the crew at the airport at 6:30am and by that time anything we've forgotten or over-packed will be too late.
The flight to Chicago is the one I'm really not looking forward to; it's just too short! It's too long to enjoy and too short to sleep (although God knows I'll try). For the longest time I was under the impression that we were flying non-stop to Singapore from Chicago - that would've been a 22-hour flight! Sadly, I've come to discover we actually stop in Hong Kong on the way. The good news is that I've never been to Hong Kong, so you can bet I'll be heading through customs in the three hour period between flights =) Although our beloved 22-hour flight is being chopped up by a stop in Hong Kong, I still look forward to the potential amount of sleep I'll be getting on the roughly 16-hour long flight. I hope the others can sleep on planes as well as I can =)
Remember, those long stretches of time when there is nothing but silence coming from this blog page it is simply because we are having too good of a time to take a break and write anything. I don't anticipate writing again before we get into Singapore. After that, it'll likely be sometime in the middle of July when we are beginning our trek back from our ethno-tours that I'll be revisiting the information super-highway and making a pit-stop on this blog site. Keep your eyes open and check back soon.
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