WEATHER: Cooler and 18C
HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY: Airline repacking and
it all FITS
BUMMER OF THE DAY: Saying goodbye to my
World Odyssey
WORD OF THE DAY: All good things must
come to an end…..
So today is my last official day Bernie’s
World Odyssey.
I do have 2 days travel time to get me
home, but it feels sad in one instance to think that 553 days has come to an
end, but I am happy to be heading home for 5 weeks and then finally getting
settled in Africa, finding my feet and settling down-well for a little while at
least. I really have no idea on what to
expect, where I will be in 3 months’ time, let alone in 12 months’ time and
this is what I am finding most anxious about the whole thing. I am a planner from way back-in a western world
I would have a job lined up, somewhere to live and have a date that I know I
would be coming back to Australia for a visit.
I have NONE of those. I am entirely
in the hands of fate, and as exciting as it sounds, it is still terrifying for
me. At the end of the day, if anything
happens, I know I can be on a jet-plane and on my way home in a heartbeat if I
need/want to.
I have nothing planned today at all
except dinner with Kate at 6pm. Oh besides
packing my bags and finding room for all the jewelry, Buddha heads, the 7 books
I bought, my freckle mat, scarves, 4 pictures and all my things that I left at
the hotel before heading out on this trip.
I also want to work on my blog and finalize my African Odyssey blog, as
I am just not sure how much time I will have once I get home. It was busy last time I was here and I had 7
weeks, how will we cope when we only have 5 weeks, my birthday and Christmas to
boot. Well we will work with what we
have – it’s all we can do. So with that
said, even though I knew I should have been doing a blog, I needed a break and
ended up working on my new blog for the whole day. I didn’t eat breakfast; I was now on a
mission with the blog. Once I put my
mind to something I like to just get it done and I also thought I better make
use of the power supply while I still had it in my room. I also had every other power point in use
charging cameras, IPod, IPad and also my Kindle for my trip home. No-one can say that I am not prepared that s
for sure.
The power went off at 1pm and it was a
blessing in disguise for me. It made me
get off the computer and get stuck into my packing. Looking at all my things spread on the bed, I
could see it was going to be a challenge, I knew it would all fit, it was just
how much it was all going to weigh and the only thing I was worried about was
my freckle rug. I am still glad I bought
it, it is super cool, but I was to still work out how I would get it home. It took me 2 hours, but I got everything
packed. The ‘monster’ of my backpack
lived up to its name, with me having to let out the extension zipper to give me
some extra room to play with, I have wrapped my freckle bag as tight as I could
in a plastic bag, taped it together and have slid it into my Philippine eco shoulder
bag and I will carry it as hand luggage along with my small backpack and my
handbag. I am going to look a little
awkward but what do I care, I’m on my way home and just need to make sure that
I get into the overhead luggage space first so it doesn’t go with my 2 pieces
of hand luggage. Only a few things didn’t
make the cut and that was the overnight bag I bought in Phuket and I also left
my Crocs that I bought in Paraguay, they were on their last legs, so I may as
well leave them here. I reckon my
backpack is around the 26kg mark, it is heavy-but hopefully I will get it through
the next 2 check-ins, surely I can’t get hit for excess baggage on my last
legs-can I?
I got another blog uploaded and worked
on the new project till 6pm when I had to leave to meet Kate for dinner and I
am so glad that we made it early as I hadn’t eaten breakfast or dinner and I
was famished. We met again at the
Kathmandu Guesthouse and then made our way to K-Too which seems to be a popular
place for tourists to eat and we were lucky we were early, as the night wore on
the place was a hive of activity and since we were in no hurry to leave we were
one of the last table to leave later on.
It is well known for its steaks, so I had one of them and it was
delicious and as it was my last night we decided to share a bottle of Chilean
wine and we just chatted the night away.
There are some people in this world you just click with and Kate is one
of them for me. We probably spent more
time together in the 2 times we have seen each other than what we did on our
South American trip. She was very outdoorsy,
hiking and riding bikes where I was NOT that way inclined, so it Has been a
late friendship to bloom but I am so lucky to have spent my last night with
some-one and not on my own and as we said goodbye at 10pm with a promise to
keep in touch, hopefully see each other at Christmas and a hug I walked home
through the deserted streets with a smile on my face.
So it may not have been the most
exciting day, but it ended great, my bags are packed and tomorrow I start my 33
hour journey home and I am excited about seeing the guys again on Saturday
morning. It also means I am a step
closer to having to make my mind up about what I am going to do with my
belongings that are in the shipping container, but that is for tomorrow-tonight
I need to soak up where I have been, what I have done, the people I have been
blessed to meet and with all that in mind-I went to sleep with a smile on my
dial and everything else happening in my life is moot. Zeme and I used to have a saying that there
is no use getting upset about things that happened yesterday-it has passed and
we just need to look forward and I am going to take his advice and what
happened between us has passed and I AM going to move forward, and with my head
held high.
Goodnight from my last official day on
my World Odyssey.
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