It’s 4 am the morning of our our final “real” Monday before we embark – and I am wide awake. Writing beats tossing and turning, right?
Friends and co-workers started asking me how I felt about this trip as soon as we announced we were going. Was I excited? Was I nervous? And the answer up until recently has been yes to all of the above – but mostly I’ve just been excited.
Then the true reality of leaving kicked in.
Over the past week I have felt like I am a senior in high school about to leave for college for the first time. We have spent the past year planning and building expectations for this milestone that I know will be great. Potentially life changing. Now that it’s here, however, the other emotions are kicking in big time. I’m tearful – sad to leave the wonderful friends we have made in San Francisco and the life we have built here in the past 2 years. I’m terrified of the unknown that we’re headed into. I’m anxious to get there already. And since we have been watching non-stop cruiser youtube videos, I’ve suddenly started to feel pressure to produce great content of our own. Ironic, right? Especially since what we are trying to do is find a way to live a little bit more simply and get away from the every day stress and pressures of doing the whole Monday grind. But such is the reality of truly taking the plunge. We are about to take the jump into the abyss of the unknown – did I really think it would be so easy?
Aside from fretting, we have been busy. Since we haven’t been posting much, here are a few highlights:
- Will went to Austin and I went to Charleston for a bachelor and bachelorette party respectively
- Every night our social calendar has been filled with the smiling faces of our friends and co-workers sending us off in style
- There’s been some attempt at packing (as you’ll see later, we’re not doing a great job)
- Will’s computer died – which meant that we lost all of our boat documentation and digital maps. Luckily it breathed back to life for 5 minutes and we were able to salvage most of what we needed
- I discovered that my new gopro has terrible audio (an oversight that seems so obvious now, but clearly I’m new to the world of video recording) and decided that I also needed a camcorder. It’s coming tomorrow so future footage should be much better!
- While we still have an income (for one more week) and access to infinite restaurants we are spending money at a feverish pace and eating everything. It’s glorious.
What’s next? Well our last day of work is this Wednesday. We pack up and head out on Friday to do a 10 day road trip before we hop our flight to Tortolla. Only 15 more days before we finally see our boat!
But before we go, I thought I’d share a quick clip of what our apartment currently looks like (not pretty) and our neighborhood for anyone who is curious about what we are leaving behind.
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