About a year ago, I hijacked my own blog to share the adventures of my trip to Ethiopia with a friend who was adopting. As I am constantly reminded, I never finished blogging about the trip.
Looking at it now, I wonder how I managed to take over 10 days off work during budget season. I can see how once I was back home and back to work I didn’t manage to find time to write about our trip.
The anniversary of this trip is a great excuse to finally finish my online travel journal. A year ago today, I set off on the first leg of the trip. Here is the first part of our adventure.
I haven’t fully decided how to share the information about my trip. In the two posts I wrote last year, I combined the notes from my journal with other memories and my pictures. This time around I may just transcribe my journal since I’m not sure how much to trust my memory to fill in the gaps. Or I could just post pictures from each day and add captions. Another option suggested was to take pictures of all the random stuff I taped in my journal and add captions to tell the story.
My plan was to have all (or at least most) of my travel posts drafted and ready to post on the appropriate day this year. But again, it’s budget season and I am the world’s worst procrastinator. So how I post each day may depend on how close to bedtime it is.
The stunning fact remains: a year ago today I left for an amazing trip I’ll never forget.
A few weeks before traveling, I stocked up on vaccinations. (There were actually six - one was on the back of my arm.)