What they said!

I'm now completely churched-out. Tired. Will add photos to TravelBlog site and to Facebook, since it's easier to do it there than here.

P.S.

Perhaps it's not all the keyboard's fault,... mother may have been drinking!

Toiletries? Check.

Okay,... even though this is likely far too early in the game to suit J, I have now set out everything that needs to get packed away.  In addition, I have now purchased all the little odds and sods that I could need in the next 2 or so weeks.  The "odds & sods" include several products of the feminine hygiene (what a ridiculous expression, anyway) variety.  I don't even want to hazard a guess as to where I would find such items in any of the countries we're visiting.  Not only that, but I wouldn't know what to call them (plugenhollen? pantiprotektornugen?), nor would I want to make the appropriate hand gestures.  Or would I?

I can "out geek" the both of you!

I've been tracking exchanges rates.

Daily.

Not so geeky, right?

Well, I've also been graphing them.  

And not using the usual "1 CAD = " approach, either.  I've been using 2 EUR = x CAD and 50 CZK = y CAD.  Both hover above $3.  I like to buy currency when the Canadian Dollar is weakest (see arrow).  Looks like EUR and CZK are gaining more ground against CAD.  Might have to buy more Euros or Crowns soon.

10...

... days until we leave.

Wow.

Anyone started packing yet?

Yay!

I should have started this whole communal blog thing much earlier! Two new posts and G learned how to set up her own account.

With any luck at all, we should have three reasonably distinct views on everything we see and experience. Mine will be the image-based posts and the other two likely the posts with,... ummm,... real words and stuff.

Of course, all this depends on reliable internet access, which I don't forsee as much to a problem. There are computers everywhere. No way I'm taking a laptop.

I've now made a list of things to pack, have set out some rudimentary journal templates and have done a lot of reading (without doing so much that I have already thought too much about the things we'll be seeing). And before anyone asks: Yes. I am still in marking-avoidance mode....

24

Not the TV show. Which I will not watch. Not because it's no good, but because I'd become a 24 addict.

I like to write in sentence fragments.

So, all that's left to do with this thing is to give G and J full access to post stuff.

Maybe we'll update it while we're traveling, and maybe we won't. Who knows?

This post is mainly a test to see if the Schmap widget works. It does. Sporadically.

Update:In retrospect, the title for this post is rather cryptic. The reference is: 24 days to go. Duh.

H.