A new adventure is on the horizon

Skinny me. I was 17 and having a graduation party. Yes, I look 12.

 If I was Catholic and went to the confessional I’d be saying something like “Forgive me father for I have sinned. It’s been 92 days since my last blog post.” I knew it was long but I’ve never gone three months.

What have I been up to? Nothing. Just work. And being a fat lazy loaf. I didn’t walk a lick this summer, and the weather was mostly beautiful. I went to chair yoga maybe twice. I do not look forward to going to the doctor October 10. I will get read the riot act. She’ll probably complain about all my numbers even  though I’m basically eating 80% vegetarian.

Ce la vie.

I’ve been searching for ways to get myself motivated since I was sick. I needed a goal. So I picked a really expensive one. ICELAND.

Clearly I cannot walk to Iceland. If I had a couple months I could walk to Mexico. But the heat, yikes.

I’ve been wanting to do something BIG. I’m alone way too much and my handful of friends have their own lives. So basically I work. All the time. And lately when I travel it’s for work. I cannot escape it.

One night at the theatre I was telling my sister-in-law about it and she asked what I was considering and I told her a few things. One was a cruise. However, if you’re a solo traveler everything is nearly twice the price. She has cruised before. The Caribbean, Mexico, Alaska. Actually, like my friend Angel, she is well traveled. She said what were you looking at. I’m not much into beaches and heat. My reply is I was thinking north, like Greenland. Or Iceland. She was interested and started searching much better than I ever could.

It kind of went away for awhile and then she got some marketing stuff in the mail from the cruise lines. 28 Days to Iceland, Greenland, and Northern Canada. We talked about it. 28 days is a long time. But the payoff s big. Three countries, white nights, maybe a glacier … So we took her coupons and went to AAA, talked about it, and decided that we were doing it. I hope we don’t kill each other by the end of 28 days together. 

One of the downsides is 4 days ocean travel with no stops. You can see that most of the stops are on the way back. I better load up my Kindle with books. There are 6 stops in Iceland, two in Greenland, and 7 in coastal Canada. 

I hear wi-fi is expensive, so I won’t be spending time on the net. Just how do you pack for 28 days? Sure you can wear clothes multiple days, but 28? Be reasonable. I don’t have that much underwear.

I don’t know what our excursions will be just yet. I’m going for nature, scenery, and maybe art. Bring on the whales and puffins! I also plan to be up at midnight to watch the sunset and rise. The 24 hours of light is on the solstice, so we’ll just miss it. But it will be close.

So now I have something to train for. Walking, hiking, and all round improving my stamina for the trip to Iceland. The blog posts should be more frequent. With my jobs it will be hard to post daily, I’m hoping a weekend wrap up. We’ll see how that goes.

Then, while on my epic adventure, I’ll chronological my trip just like I do every time. But this time I’ll be typing off line, and just cutting/pasting when I have internet service.