Packing

April 26

Well I just finished the act that signals the end of the journey. I packed, something that is incredibly difficult to do at the end as you suddenly realize how much junk I have collected over the last 6 months. Then it comes time to separate the junk that goes and the junk that goes home, which sounds way harder than you think. This is about the same time you realize your bag is way too small. So you realize that your initial pile of stuff to go home has to be sorted through again until it fits in the bag. Or in my case pull out a second bag and fill it, or to be more precise I shrunk my air mattress down to as small as it goes and then shoved the rest of my leftover stuff into it. I love being resourceful. Thus I finished packing and sat stunned realizing that in 15 hours I am going home, and in a bit over 35 I will be home. I hung around the hostel, checked my flight as I hadn't looked to see if it was still flying since I got my ticket over 6 months ago. I sat down and chatted with a couple other people in the hostel finishing off the last of my beer as it would go bad if I left it here anyway, and I wasn't going to bring that home. I stayed up until 1:30 chatting with Steve before I packed it in, and that is the end of my last day in Australia. I have to be up in 5 hours, so that is all from Bondi, next blog will probably be up in the air. I just checked the last time I put up a blog and went WHOOPS. I am kind of embarrassed that I am over a month behind on my blogs, which means I will be home a long time before I get my final blogs up. When I do finally get them up it is like going back in time. My last blog from OZ feels kind of weak, but I will probably have a better blog on the plane.
That’s all

Adam