When you start to change your mind...

One thing about me is that I am pretty good at talking myself out of doing things that would actually be good for me. This is why some of you reading this may think that I'm being really organised and control freakish in booking my tickets etc etc so far in advance (which partly I am) but also it's because I knew if I booked stuff then I wouldn't be able to unbook it and so I'd have to go. So, with this in mind, I knew myself well as I'm having a "what am I doing?" phase which I can't pay any attention to really because it's all booked and now I can't talk myself out of it without losing vast sums of cash! When I was doing my PhD, a very nice lady called Alice who was a lecturer in the department told me that she thought you should only do a PhD for one of two reasons. The first is because you really enjoy the subject, the second is because you can go no further in life without doing one. I'm beginning to think travelling is the same. The websites say you shouldn't do it unless you really want to. But in actual fact I think the second reason is a good one too. You should only do it if you can go no further in life as you are. And I think that's my reason for this trip.