Saturday, July 21, 2007

Preparation

"Just one more trip to MEC, then we'll be done all the big pre-trip spending."
If I had a nickel for every time one of us said that, I'd probably spend it at MEC!

5 weeks of work left for me, 3.5 for Megan. Should be plenty of time to get our gear sorted out, if we could just stop adding to the pile! One more thing to check off the list now, tho - we officially have a blog.

The title is a bit misleading, since we'll only be in Moby (the minivan/great white whale) for 2/3 of the trip, but that'll probably be the time when most of the activity happens on this blog. Our current itinerary is as follows:
  • Aug 15: Megan finishes work and starts packing/house stuff
  • Aug 24: Dave finishes work and helps finish packing/house stuff
    • We staggered the time we're done work cuz we don't trust ourselves not to just go climbing for that first week if it's sunny...
  • Sept 3: Fly to Cuzco by way of Lima
  • Sept 5: Spanish school starts
  • Sept 19: Done spanish school, probably do a few longer trips out of Cuzco
  • Play, lots, trending generally south
    • trekking
    • touristing
    • horseback riding
    • ...
  • Jan 1: fly back to Vancouver to visit family, friends, cat
  • Jan 8: head south to Joshua Tree in Moby
  • Play, even more, following the weather east and then north
    • hiking
    • climbing
    • touristing
    • museums
    • violin
  • June-ish: listen to fiddle music (read: pub crawl) in the maritimes
  • August-ish: climbing in the Bugaboos and/or Tuolomne Meadows
  • August 25: Visit family

All of the above is subject to whim and fancy, and will probably change.

--Dave, Vancouver

1 comment:

D Healey said...

you so kick booty... i'm going to have to try to make a quick visit in Aug before you 2 go South. i'll keep you posted.

where's the cat going to live?

got accepted to the assistant winter program. oh boy!

keep safe -

dh