So yeah today is my last day in the USA for 2010. Well I guess if you look at my itinerary you will see that I am actually coming back on December 31st. But in order to sound impressive I am going to stick with this being the last day in the US in 2010. Actually, since I am sitting in the airport right now for my first connection to Vancouver these are really my last few hours in the US.
Due to a very long story we had to get to the airport at 11AM since we couldn’t check our bags until 5 hours before the flight we got on the stand by list for the 4:05PM flight and checked our bags. unfortunately there is only the one flight to Hong Kong so we will just have to wait longer in Vancouver but at least we are free of our big luggage. This will serve as a slight correction to the itinerary linked to above if we get on this earlier flight.
But anyways the real purpose of this blog entry is to show two pictures. Here is a picture of all of my stuff laid out on my bed.
As you can see I have quite a lot of stuff there but here is the next picture. This is the backpack that I am carrying with me backpacking through Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
Can you believe that all the stuff on that bed is now in that backpack? well it is! But yeah that is 6 weeks of stuff. We’ll have to be washing clothes all the time but I think it will be fun. Oh I believe in my Recent Purchases entry I mentioned the failure of my cheap backpack. The backpack pictured above is the new one I bought. I got it for 89.95 from the REI outlet, it’s the 2009 Deuter Futura 40 backpack. The original price was 129.95 but I got it at a discount. Here is the link, if you are looking into a small-ish backpack for backpacking then this is the deal for you. I suggest that you get it while it lasts haha.
Anyways it is time for me to go! I am off to Vancouver and then Hong Kong! at some point I will have to write a bit about the Kindle 3G+Wifi that I received recently. In my opinion it is the most amazing thing that has happened to reading since the Gutenberg printing press.
Peace!