Friday, June 16, 2006

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.