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0 days left! Finally :)

Planning and waiting for this trip has felt like forever. I knew already 2012 that I wanted to go back to South-America sometimes soon.. Three years later it is really happening!! 

November when we bought the flights it felt unreal. Christmas when I said goodbye to my family, it still felt like months before we go. Two weeks ago when I had my last shift, there was still so much to sort with the house. Wednesday we packed the car and left from Barrow only with our backpacks, I felt nervous. This morning when I woke up, I was thinking - zero days!! Shit, today we really go! :D

I feel incredible lucky and so happy at the moment. We have the opportunity and the guts to leave everything and go away for a year. I can't describe how great it feels, when you don't know your next destination, next place where you will be sleeping, what bus to take or people you will meet. I think I am travel junkie. I love it when my whole life is packed for a backpack (16kg) and I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow. It is weird how relaxed and stress-free life can be (for me) when there is no work and no schedules.

I have cried so many times already and I think there will be few more tears still to come. They are happy tears, don't worry. But I hate goodbyes, even though they are not goodbyes because we will be back. Thank good for technology, it is amazing these days so it doesn't even feel that I am away! My family and friends will be close to me, via interned <3<3

My song for the trip will be the same as last time, Maailman toiselle puolen

One week!

Now it is getting closer and closer! My back is repacked and no more room for anything else. If I need something more, I just have to throw something else away.. Here is a list of my stuff what I will be carrying with me for the next 11 months.  So when you see me wearing the same top in every picture, that is the only top what I have with me :)

7 socks
9 underwear 
Bikinis
4 tops
Merino woolen layer
Hat + gloves
2 scarf
Puff
3 pants
2 shorts
Jumper
Button shirt
2 vests
4 t-shirts
2 long sleaves
Leggins
2 woolly socks
Dress
Rain jacket + pants
Warmpeace jacket
Jacket
Towel
Rain poncho
Hammoch
Sleeping liner
Mosquito net
Hiking boots
Sandals
Sneakers
Camera + phone
Charger + adapter
2 sunglasses
Mosquito sprey
Sunlotion
Baby powder
Leatherman 
2 locks.
Headtorch 
Cards + ludo + yazy dice
EA pack


Is that all? What did I forget?

Two weeks!!

In two weeks time, we or at least I will be very nervous. Heading towards Manchester Airport, coming back, who knows when.. 

Everything starts to be pretty much sorted. I have checked that I can fit everything in my backpack, we have anti malaria tablets, our house is rented and half of the stuff already packed. Now it is basically just waiting..

Our plans are still very open. We are flying to Panama City and taking a sailing boat two days later to Cartagena, Colombia. We are going to explore the Caribbean and Ciudad Perdida before heading down for big cities. We have booked a 2 week volunteering place from Nuqui, Pasific Coast. That is about it, what we know this far :D