New possibilities for Africa

Having decided that I can't actually do the trip through Zimbabwe I started looking for other possibilities and found a tour that sounds amazing with Intrepid Travel. It's a 41 day tour that starts in Cape Town (which is better for me because it means I can miss out Jo'Burg which I wasn't that keen on going to and also it doesn't start until the 15th December so it gives me extra days to play around with making Australia and New Zealand less of a rush. However, being longer it also means that it costs more but having reworked out my finances last night it's looking just about possible. Might need to make some more money on the side though so I'm currently looking into easy ways to make money. Thinking of doing online paid surveys. May only pay a few pounds a time but it's easy and every penny counts at the moment! Might try selling some stuff through Amazon as well as I have lots of random books at home which I don't really need and could sell. Other than that it's my body!

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My friend's boyfriend went off on his travels for the year yesterday and it seems that it was a while away before he was due to go and yet it's come round so quickly. I'm hoping that my trip is the same. Only 21 weeks and 2 days of work left so it's really not that long. I bought my sleeping bag a couple of weeks ago. Bought a Vango Ultralite 700. Didn't end up being as small as advertised but that may be because I'm not the Incredible Hulk so can't compress it as much as it can be compressed! It's still fairly little though and I'm very pleased with it. Also bought a camera battery from ebay which was a bargain and I'm currently bidding on a memory card! Ebay is quite addictive so I'm having to exert a bit of self-control!
Was reading about San Francisco last night and all sounded very exciting. Think I might miss out LA as I've been there before and I need a few days for Vancouver and then I can spread out SF a bit. Seeing as I've wanted to go there for years might as well make the most of it.
Checked out the Merrell Frond sandals at the weekend but didn't find them that comfortable so will have to find something else. I am not having Epidemics (otherwise known as Tevas but we call them epidemics because when they first came out everyone had them so it was like an epidemic!) or anything like them because I think they are not very attractive and the thought I might have to did actually put me off going away for a while! Have to wait for the sales to finish and all the summer stuff to come out.

Happy New Year!!

Well it's now 2007 - the year of the trip! Had some lovely things for it as Christmas presents. Got a Life Venture towel, a hair turban, a first aid kit, Swiss Army Knife and then went and bought a toiletry roll from Jacksons. Was hoping they'd have a sale on - they didn't - but it was still reasonable. My friends Rachel and Jim (who bought me a great travel journal for Christmas) have given me complimentary tickets to the Travel Show at Earls Court in February so will be good to check out some travel possibilities and Kumuka will be there so can speak to them about the changes to the Africa trip. It's gonna be a good year!