It is 12:40 am on the eve of our South American Travels. We leave in 5 hours and our excitement is almost uncontrollable. Except that we need to get a decent amount of sleep so we'll have to find a way to harness the excitement.
Our goals for the trip are:
a) not dying
b) having a greater summer than any of you will ever experience
c) learning to eat spicy food
d) avoid getting explosive diarrhea
e) successfully communicating in Spanish
When asked why Meghan would be a great travelling partner, my first response was that 'she's a lifeguard, and knows CPR.' But also adding to that, she's probably one of my top three friends who are not crazy and I can get along with without having to fill the silences with nervous chatter. Also, she's probably taken care of me in more situations than I can count without complaints, and which will help accomplish our goals as listed above.
On my end, I think Vanessa will be an ideal travel-mate based primarily on the fact that she will keep me entertained. Otherwise, she's also one of my top non-crazy friends and is much more organized than I am. Yes, I realize that I have to make sure she doesn't die and bring me down with her, but that's a responsibility I'm willing to take on.
The goal of this journal is to keep everyone up to date on our travels, our disaster status and so on. So far we've managed to pick up Meghan from the train station, driving through treacherous rainstorms to reach Vanessa's house in Waterloo, so I think we're off to a great start. Tomorrow we'll have a delicious breakfast of cereals and apples - and after that, who knows?
We spoke of our lack of disasters too soon. Vanessa just dropped her camera.
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