Thursday, March 25, 2010

things I'm not taking to Everest

Jordan's Slinky. He watches too many Jim Carrey movies.

My towel. I've packed like six times, I swear, and in the end I decided that I'd rather have an extra fleece jacket than a towel. I'm sure that somewhere in Kathmandu, before I go to Everest, there will be somewhere I can buy a towel.

Frederick. (I sleep with him.) Sigh. He's just too big. I've taken him as carry-on, before, pretending he was a pillow, but he's really not. He's really a large stuffed frog.

My cell phone and my laptop. As an aside, the trek company emailed me and said that at the moment there's only about four hours of electricity a day in Kathmandu. So I did get a flashlight.

Kirsten's bus tickets for next weekend. (We've had bus ticket issues before...)

I am, however, taking my Ipod. I got a cool little solar panel about the size of a Pop-Tart to attach to the back of my pack, so I can recharge it.

I leave tomorrow for Vancouver. I leave Vancouver at 3am Saturday. I get to Hong Kong at 8am Sunday morning after a 13 hour flight. I guess that's a lot of time zones. I lose a lot of March 27th. Then Sunday afternoon I fly to Kathmandu. My only real trepidation is that I'm hoping that the trek company remembers to pick me up at the airport... wish me luck :)

the other end of the spectrum, musically speaking