The Big Adventure

A year ago I made a silly decision. I decided that the best thing I could do with my six months off before starting work was to spend 3 of them getting eaten alive by bed bugs and suffering severe Tea withdrawal symptoms mixed in with a bit of  running away from Spiders in a country where theres actually a good reason for running away from them. Then I decided that I should throw in some walking through a jungle with the equivalent of about 10 bricks on my back.

All this of course is the glamorous life of a shoestring backpacker. Quite why I decided this was a good idea when my idea of 'slumming it' is not having a powerpoint for my hair straightners I am not sure. I think somewhere in the back of my mind was the idea that I would at some point over the summer morph into a svelte and sporty hippie with a desire to do nothing else than trek through jungle and sleep in bunk beds. Unfortunately with 3 weeks to go this is still yet to happen.

I am obviously looking forward to the trip - I cannot wait to see amazing places and do amazing things and to share them all with hubby-to-be. I just wish that it wasn't going to involve quite so many hostels and a diet of bread and butter if the budget is anything to go by! I am sure that once I am there I will never want to leave - except perhaps to come home for a decent cup of tea!

The reality is that at heart I am a home person. I love nothing better than a night curled up in front of the tele with a game of scrabble and two cats curled on our laps. None of which I expect to be getting in the outback of Australia. Before even leaving I am imagining how great it will be to get home in the cold of January and snuggle up on the sofa! I will miss my cats dreadfully - and my mum - but the small concellation of course will be that I will be a sufficiently long way away from the in-laws to recover from the trauma of living with them and perhaps remember what lovely people they are really!

So I am looking forward to going away, and coming home again. I don't think I will ever get the 'travel bug' and pack my nice warm home and job in to travel the world  - but I suppose you never know till you try!!