That’s Why You Don’t Talk Trash
Roughly two and a half weeks ago, during warm ups of a student versus faculty basketball game at Churchill High School, I jumped to shoot. A ball from the other side of the court rolled under my left foot. I hit the floor, looked at a rapidly swelling ankle and immediately asked myself, “Why hadn’t I bought my traveller’s insurance yet?” Nadine looked perplexed and asked, “What is it this time?” I worried that I would be disabled for the start of our trip around the world in Mid-June, or we wouldn’t be able to leave on our scheduled date.
Left foot in a cast
The result of this little ordeal was a severely sprained ankle, bruised ego, fractured ankle, and a walking cast to “boot” for 3 weeks. Fortunately, we will not have to postpone our departure date. Nadine will begin her adventure with a partner with two different sized legs, but who will definitely be leaving with her in June to the Cook Islands.
Change of Plans?
Four weeks from departure, we don’t have everything in order. I am pretty sure we will be running around like chickens with our heads cut off a week before we leave. Which travel insurance do we finally want to go with? Who is taking the car? Storage, oh yeah, we need that too! All the joys of planning a trip of this magnitude and longitude. If our planning was all on Nadine’s shoulders, everything would already be carefully planned out and hostels secured. If our planning was all on my shoulders, we would dream for a year of the places that we are going to go, and the day before we leave, take care of the bare necessities. Good thing both of us are planning together. Nadine, the realistic and practical one, me, dreaming of our stays on the beach.
Nevertheless, it is an exciting time for us. We are going to have a solid 10ish months to “be” and to travel without time constraints. That’s what is great about traveling, freedom to explore, see new places, people, customs, and languages on a daily basis, challenging one’s self with directions, dialects, hand signals. As always, it requires us to be patient, laugh at ourselves, and adapt. It shall be an interesting ten months.
So we are about to leave a great situation where we have great jobs surrounded with great family, friends, students, and comfort. It will be tough to leave these people for the unknown, yet in order to grow as a person and challenge ourselves, we have to remove ourselves from our comfort and hit the road.
Trying Out the new RTW clothes
