Counting Down

In less than 48 hours, I will be in the air on my way to Israel! Just a few things to note before the trip:

1. I remain terrible at packing despite my years of experience. (Walking around the house shouting "I hate packing" has yet to produce any real results).
2. I'm a little worried about the other members of my trip because on Facebook, it appears that the fact that a person gets one carry-on and one personal item seems to be a major revelation for some people. No judgment but hopefully everyone already knows that they need a passport to leave the country.
3. I am not bringing my laptop on the trip. I am going equipped with my phone, an iPod and good old fashioned pen and paper. I plan on leaving my phone off and away for the trip and blogging from my iPod. This means that the quality of my blog posts will suffer because I will not be able to post any pictures but I'm sure I will type out all of my snarky comments when I have the opportunity (which, quite frankly, might not be all that often). My camera is coming but since I won't have anything to hook it up to, I will be unable to post the pictures I take. There was a way to sync the camera with WiFi but that still doesn't give me anyway of blogging.

So that's me. Just got to finish that pesky packing thing and soon I shall be on my way. Updates to come, I'm sure!

The Postcard Diary

Although I cannot recall a specific post, I'm sure that I've written about my postcard diary during my year and a half on the road. Today, I counted all of the postcards I sent myself during that time and the grand total is 145!! That's 2.95918367347 postcards per residency! Now, some weeks I didn't send myself any postcards and I also sent myself postcards during unbooked weeks but no matter how you cut it, it's pretty cool. Particularly when you consider how much time I spent in the middle of nowhere!

In other news that is totally unrelated to postcards but is also very cool, I leave for Israel in a week! I just confirmed my spot on the trip and now I just need to get ready!