Monday, April 16, 2007

16th April 2007: Premature Erudition

This is supposed to be a travel blog, but seeing as how it is still T minus two days we will just have to chalk this one up as a preamble. Things are starting to get pretty bloody real. We're close to having divested ourselves of non-transportable worldly possessions, and the last minute rush to polish off all the organisation is well and truly on. It feels like I still need another week to get everything properly ticked off, luckily Jane is far more composed and sorted out, which is just peachy.

After making an effort to get walking fit since Christmas all the busy work and endless hours spent trying to negotiate the barstardly mazes of bankers and beaureaucrats over the last month has pretty much destroyed any gains made. The walk to Everest that is the first item on our itinerary will be an absolute baptism of fire. Still, as St Augustine said; "per molestias eruditio" or loosely translated, "true education begins with physical abuse." So here starteth the lesson.

Robert

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