So It Begins

Traveling is such an interesting experience. You plan for weeks, months, even years in advance and yet when the day of leaving arrives it’s hard to be excited and remember why you wanted to do this in the first place. At least that’s how I’m feeling at the moment with barely three hours of sleep and the knowledge that I won’t see my family and my partner for two months it’s hard to feel the excitement that I know is there. I know that once I’ve gotten sleep and am hydrated everything will feel different.

Time and distraction is the remedy for this and soon I will have all of that. Our flight for Auckland leaves LA at 10:30pm and until then we get to hang out in LA…which honestly I’m not super stoked about, but I’m glad that I have a place to chill rather than being stuck in the airport for 12 hours.

Raina and I flew in this morning and while waiting for our Uber we were approached by a bearded Australian who had justed arrived and had no idea what to do. He asked if he could tag along with us to Venice Beach and explained that he had bought a ticket to Peru yesterday and when he got to LA he decided to stay here instead. So he jumped in the car with us and went to Venice Beach where the three of us had breakfast and chatted. We said goodbye afterwards and he went off to find a hostel while Raina and I took another Uber to where Jonah was staying. So now it’s the three of us counting down the hours until take off. When we arrive we will take a shuttle to our hostel and relax for the rest of the day.

So here’s to safe and easy travels!