Suddenly here

Erika--

We've said goodbye to everyone excepting out parents, sat on our packs to close them (we're going to have to ditch something) and wiped our cameras memory cards clean. We can't have forgotten anything, can we? The weirdest thing about travelling is how it actually happens. A girl (or girls) plan for months/years and then suddenly she really gets on a plane and goes somewhere. It was all so hypothetical for so long and then one finds oneself in a foreign land, jetlagged and perplexed, and realizes that one is stuck for quite a while. A sentence like that can only be written in the days preceding leaving. After one or two nights of sleep in Christchurch, I'll be ecstatic. Right now, I'm cautious. Reality is staring me down and I'll admit that I'm blinking.

The purposes of this post are to give you a little more information regarding our plans and to give you our emails so you can be added to either correspondence list you wish. or both, of course.

Here're the details:

*Leaving today at 6.45pm

*Arriving in Christchurch, NZ at 10pm on FRIDAY. yeah, that's right, a day of our lives never experienced, isn't that curious?

*Spending a few days in ChCh and then walking down to a farm on the Banks Peninsula to trade our muscular abilities for food, board and some new insight into organic growing.

*Walking back up to a farm north of ChCh, repeat. etc.

Erika's email is erika.johnson06@gmail.com

Kristen's is rose.kristen@gmail.com

Write us. It gets lonely out there on the road, knowing that everyone's life is going on the same and we aren't there. I know I can't expect sympathy here and I don't expect it but let's just keep in touch regardless.

How's that for a scattered post? Love to you all