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Bury St. Edmunds,
United Kingdom
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
My inadequacies at saing goodbye have been impressive, I would say I have said farewell to at least half my friends and family twice but it has been fun doing so especially-pub golf being a particular highlight of this unarduous process!
Pub Golfers
I finished packing yesterday and I have to say I am quite impressed with myself. Using my 'Rough Guide to Gap Years' as my bible, I have managed to whittle down a mass of clothes and equipment into what my book and my World Challenge intuition would suggest were the essentials-if I find anything that I need to have been left home however I will be blaming the book. 
All this
Into these
The clothes I am taking for 5 months
The excitement is taking hold as I write this but the addresses I still need to write out for postcards, the daysack I need to pack and the neck of my brother's that I need to garrot for losing the cable that was going to keep my small MP3 stocked with my Limewire collection (damn Karma!) are all obstacles that still make my departure tomorrow morning at 1am seem something other than the distant future.
I am sure the speed at which this trip has approached me up until today, will soon be outweighed by the speed at which it will have passed me by, when I come back.
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Bon voyage
Best wishes, Tom. We'll miss you in sleepy old Suffolk. Enjoy the adventure and please bring me back a present. Geoff Barton