September 10, 2002 Monticello, Indiana, USA
Well, I guess this will be my last USA entry for awhile, since tomorrow my mom will drive me to Indianapolis International, where I will board a series of flights that will take me to Auckland two days later. It's only fifteen hours of flying, but I will cross the International Date Line, so I will lose an entire day. Freaky. Anyways, I've thought about all the worrying and planning I have been doing, and realized I've been being silly. I'm incredibly fortunate to have the chance to do this, so I'll gladly accept whatever happens along the way.
So with this in mind, I made a revised packing list. You really only need three things:
- Passport - without this, you're limited to Canada, Mexico, or a Caribbean cruise. And even then, life is easier if you have one.
- Credit Card - this will give you access to money in most places, which you can use to buy whatever you need, wherever you are.
- Tickets - even these are optional, if you decide to just go to the bus station and head for the border.
I'd like to thank all the people who have wished me luck. I'm happy that people are interested in what I am going to do. Hopefully I can keep you all entertained! I'm not sure when I will update the site, since for me, the point of traveling is avoid things like work as much as possible. I am going to keep a pen and paper journal, and update the site maybe once a week with my daily entries. The plan was to notify subscribers to the mailing list that the site has been updated, but I'm having some technical difficulties with the mailing list. To make a long story short, I have to manually subscribe everyone who signs up. Luckily, not too many people have signed up, so I may get this going eventually. Obviously, it would be nice if this were an automated process, but I don't have time right now to work on this. :)
So, signing out for now. Tomorrow, the adventure begins.