Friday 25 February 2011

1st Post

Well basically I’ve been stuck in England since the 28th of December......yes. A long time. since then I have been going over my itinerary, desperately trying to find something to do. I went back over every hostel I am planning on staying in finding alternatives if need be. I have also read almost every Blog post on the lonely planet website, almost religiously trying to find more way of preparing myself for the trip.

I didn’t think it would be so complicated trying to get myself prepared medically for the trip. I have been put on so many meds it’s become second nature for me to pop pills in the Morning and night. there seems to be a heck of allot of procedure when someone like me goes on holiday. don’t get me started on my troubles getting vaccinations. I'm immune  suppressed so not supposed to get live viruses put into me as vaccinations, ruling out yellow fever..........entry requirements for most south American countries....yellow fever. seriously. the doctor said I should get it because it’s too risky for me to go without one.......90% death if I get it when not inoculated. so yeah, time for vaccine which potentially can have some bad side effects.

So yeah it’s been a bag of laughs being stuck here, desperately trying to fill my time with work and going to the gym, weekends mainly dedicated to seeing the girlfriend. but any who 39 days to go and counting. I'm not lying. seriously I have a chart and I'm crossing of the days, I also have a map of SA which  have plotted the rout I was meant to be taking, and the one I am going to be taking, crossing off the destination my travel buddy is currently in. I know, sad right?

I'm going to get back to cooking up my food now, i'll blog in the week leading up to the flight.
Bye for now.