Injected With Diseases

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Ok, so last night Manny and I went and got injected with some diseases, some of you may call that a vaccination. All in all we both needed 5 shots, one oral vaccination and a prescription for two sets of pills. Not all of them were needed but advised. The most important was the yellow fever one because you need a certificate of the shot to get into some countries.

My list of things to do before I leave is ever expanding but the time to do it is dwindling. I really gotta stop planning these trips last minute. A trip of this grandeur requires more that two weeks to organize everything, but that doesn’t mean it’s not possible.

What was done today:

  • some house cleaning (this will be done every day)
  • bought the wrong hard drive to back up my photos (but I can use it for other reasons)
  • did some research on camera equipment I need to buy
  • oh yeah, I also bought the actual tickets in and out of Nairobi

So my flights are as follows:

20/11/08 – Toronto to Amsterdam @ 18:05

         - flight length: 7:10

         - land @ 7:15 (the next day)

21/11/08 – Amsterdam to Nairobi @ 10:20

         - flight length: 8:05

         - land @ 20:25

15/01/09 – Nairobi to Amsterdam @ 22:50

         - flight length: 8:40

         - land @ 5:30 (the next day)

16/01/09 – Amsterdam to Toronto @ 13:40

         - flight length: 8:10

         - land @ 15:50

I still have to guy flights to Gulu and Tanzania, but I’ll do that once I’m in the country. This is almost 60 days abroad!

I’m nervous/excited/scared all at the same time.