Off to the Land of the Long White Cloud

Getting ready to depart for New Zealand (tonight). Now that the trip is hours away, it's finally dawning on me that I'm really going. Bag is packed (and fitted by a very helpful REI employee named Amanda) - weird to only be taking a backpack instead of a rolling suitcase of doom, but in a cool way. I bit the bullet and only packed two (ok, three, but one is non fiction so it doesn't really count - does it?) books. That's a new record for me! Naturally, my bag is chock-full of electronics, but none of them is a laptop. My hands shook as I typed that last sentence, but it'll probably fade in a couple of days.

I'll do what I can to update this blog as I find little islands of wired-ness on the road. I'm eager to have some interesting tales to tell...