Nervous anticipation of the coming year

Trip Start Dec 12, 2006
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Trip End Mar 09, 2007


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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

I'm a bit nervous.  I have felt it before, that nervous anxiety right before a trip begins.  Whats gonna happen?  Do I have everything?  I'm wondering what I forgot this time. 

I have a bit of an idea what I want to happen over the coming months, but its actually not really planned and I like it like that.  I'm pretty excited to wing the whole thing and see what happens.  The plan as of now is to live in Costa Rica for a couple of months, take a spanish class (to get my spanish up in working order again, I haven't really used it since high school) and do some exploring of Costa Rica and its neighboring countries. 
Afterwards, I'd like to move to the Pacific coast of Costa Rica for a while and do lots of surfing and reading.  The plans of working at my friends bar on the coast have fallen though unfortunately, but I'm not too bummed.  I have the crazy idea of maybe packing parachutes at a skydive drop zone to finance the completion of my skydiving license (never finished it in Austin).  Not sure how feasible that is.  After living here for a couple of months, the plan is to move into Panama, then Columbia and then into rest of South America.  I'm curious to see how things will unfold.

I have now roughly had a month's time to settle down from my travels in Europe and to prepare for my coming travels in Central and South America.  It was exactly what I needed.  I got to see a lot of my family and friends which was one of my main motivations for having a full months time.  It was great to see all of you guys! I had a blast.  Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it down to Austin, which was kind of a bummer.  Money doesn't grow on trees these days unfortunately.

A months time was about what I needed to clean up from Europe, put stuff in storage, and get all the things that I needed for next leg. Its amazing how much time it actually takes to get all that stuff ready.  Taxes, finances, equipment, clothes, tickets, research, and all that crap.  I pretty much had just enough time to get it all done. 

A month gave me a bit too much time to settle down though, and I probably got a bit too comfy at home.  My flights in a couple of hours, and ready or not, here I go.
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miranda.chen
miranda.chen on Dec 25, 2006 at 03:03AM

cheers!
either way, we're glad you stayed a month. had a blast hanging out, drinking beer, eating raw fish, and meeting most of your buddies. take care out there! will be checking up on you via this blog.

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