A List Upon Departure (for Marty)

Ladies, fellas, it's been a little while. I apologise.
Right now it's two and a half hours until my plane leaves Perth for Sydney, where I will, for two days, run around and look at art with an ex-girlfriend/ lounge in front of the World Cup with an ex-housemate before onwards travelling towards Buenos Aries, and Bogota and then to Medellin. I will be away for two months in all. There is a plan to write on this blog a number of times weekly. Thats a lot more than I have been writing on it recently.

Colombia. Col-om-bia. Mmmmm. chk chk. Colombia.

Partial list of items packed for the trip:

• 1 x silk inner sheet
• 2 x books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• 1 x book by Jorge Luis Borges
• 1 x power adaptor
• 1 x inflatable kangaroo
  
• 1 x Australian passport
• 1 x Yellow Fever Vacination Certificate
• 2 x mousepads with naked beach girls on them, with the words "AUSSIE BABES - AUSTRALIA"
• 1 x Triceritops iPod case, with iPod.
  
• 1 x box of chocolate covered macadamia nuts, in the shape of koalas.
• 1 x Jordanian kefiyah
• 16 x Temazepam sleeping pills.
• 1 x brand new notebook
• 2 x protective combination padlocks
• 3 x packets of Timtams, part of a present I am delivering on behalf of a Colombian au pair who looks after a girl at my afterschool care centre, to her family and boyfriend in Medellin.
• 1 x book belonging to Nick Tapper called "Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish".
• Probably too many jumpers.

For the record: this is probably my most hesitant departure ever. Because? I have reasons.