The good news: everything is packed in some way, shape, or form (I never knew one could be so creative when packing). The bad news: There is absolutely no way that everything weighs somewhere around 25 pounds - not a chance. But, I've unpacked and repacked just about everything - my pack has medicines (which the travel clinic seems to think I need a lot of, so I have a lot), clothing, soap, shampoo, DEET stuff, and sunscreen. All of this, surprisingly, weighs a lot. My carry-on has three books, a journal, essential paper and information for the trip, some cards, rain jacket, and my prescriptions. So, with the minimal amount of clothing (about three/four days of clothes) and supplies I've decided I'm travelling as light as I can - if someone has ideas about what to leave behind I'll dump stuff on Dad in New York before I'm off tomorrow morning....
We're due to leave in a few minutes and I'm excited and really hungry (no food until we hit the road for a while :( ). As soon as Daniel finishes serving mass and gets everything together we'll be off - I couldn't be more excited. I checked the weather yesterday and saw it's suppose to be in the upper 70s during the day and lower 60s at night - which didn't seem so bad to me for the equator - and then I looked at the humidity: 75-85%. Ouch. And I thought Cleveland humidity was bad last week..... Oh well, I suppose once I get used to it I'll be fine - it'll just be a rough few days at first I'd imagine.
Up ahead I have about eight hours to New York in the car and I get dumped tomorrow morning for three days of orientation and to meet my group. Thursday I leave around 5pm, fly for seven and a half hours to Amsterdam, wait six hours for the next flight to leave, then fly seven and half down to Uganda. From there, based on the guide books and what-not, it's another four or five hours until we get to Mbale using public transportation. I will be very jet-lagged when I get there.
I'm off to attempt to tie my sleeping bag to my pack so I don't have to carry it. I'll try and give an update in New York, but I don't know if we'll have computer access there.....
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