The Story So Far ...

We said farewell to our work friends at the RSPCA and BBC on 14 September, farewell to our families on 3 October, and set off for Africa to save cheetahs, decorate school buildings, and look around a bit. After a trip home for Christmas, we headed for South East Asia on 6 January -- where we were stunned by Qatar and Cambodia, taught novice monks in Laos, and acted as security guards at an Elephant Festival. It was back home for four weeks to look after John's dad, before we tangoed our way through five South American countries in fifteen days. We then snooped our way through New Zealand, dipped our toes into Fiji, drove-thru California and were home from home with family in Vancouver.

Now, we are home itself. Fulfilled, happy, and ready to earn the respect of our friends and family by knuckling down and earning some money once again ...

Friday, 8 October 2010

Learn to Love Your Luggage

"Please, lovely airport carousel, please, please, please don't slow down and stop" I wimpered to myself.  But the little carousel wasn't listening, and shuddered triumphantly to an insolent standstill.  Gleaming and empty. With Henry's rucksack nowhere in sight.  Henry caught up with me in the luggage arrivals hall -- I shrugged my shoulders, pointed blankly to the row of bags annexed by a Chinese group about to set off through customs clearance.  "It's not here.  We'll have to go to Luggage Enquiries ..."  Destination One, and we've got a little problem.

Henry looked closer.  A lot closer.  And pulled from the Chinese luggage mountain his rucksack.  A rucksack he'd borrowed from a friend, the colour and style of which I hadn't noted very carefully.  An early lesson for me in panic-control.  Learn to love your luggage.  By the end of this trip we'll probably know every inch of it more intimately than is probably decent.

JY
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