Hello, neglected blog

I haven’t logged into WordPress for 8 months. I don’t even know who is still reading this blog (the last time I checked, it was my boyfriend’s mom). But, it’s a new decade, I’m doing some exciting things this year, I’m taking better photos, and I’m unemployed so why not start blogging again!

I spent several weeks trying to find the perfect blogging platform, the perfect theme, and the perfect blog format, but at this point I feel like I’m overthinking all of this and am going to just write what I feel like.

Today’s my third last day of work. I’m sitting in my living room, surrounded by moving boxes and clutter and some agents have come around to show the flat as we are moving out in 2 weeks and flying to Cape Town, South Africa to start our year of travelling, kicking off with a 55-day group tour.

Things we have done already to get ready:

• booked flights and accomodation for everything up until May
• booked activities for Cape Town since we are arriving a week before the tour officially starts
• gotten vaccinated
• purchased malaria tablets
• purchased travel insurance
• applied for and received an East African Tourist visa for Kenya and Uganda
• posted some of our belongings for sale to the neighbours and on Gumtree

Things we still have to do:

• receive our single-entry visa for Malawi (hopefully this should happen on Thursday)
• the moving company has to come pick up our stuff
• sell or give away the stuff we aren’t shipping back to Canada
• buy some of the items on the packing list that we don’t already have, eg. walking poles
• miscellaneous things related to moving countries, eg. changing addresses
• book activities for the extra week we’re staying in Kenya after the tour ends

It’s a lot but as long as I have check lists, I feel like it’s do-able. Also Branden has been off work starting this week so he’s able to make a dent in some of these tasks while I’m at work.

Anyway, I think I just did the written equivalent of “diarrhea of the mouth” but I’m planning to have write some more posts that have an actual point with useful information, such as about how we went about planning this trip.

I’m off to continue watching The Bachelor season premiere. I’m behind by a week, but I’m going to miss most of the season anyway as I’ll be off the grid.