traveling adrenaline

It's funny how you get a certain excitedness for trips. I imagine that people who travel all the time eventually lose most of this. For me, the mere act of flying in an airplane is enough to get me excited. New places seem to have some sort of mystery to them that gets the adrenaline flowing.

I've been more or less seriously planning to go on this trip for the past month, joking about it since about December when a certain Vancouver blogger suggested it :-p .

The reality that I was actually doing this started to set in when I got immunizations for four different diseases and prescriptions for two others. Buying the plane tickets is always the most surreal part of it. No matter how much I talk about it or prepare for it... until the tickets are bought I haven't committed to anything.

One of the goals I set for myself earlier this year was to travel more... and more specifically fill up my passport this time around ;) (I got a new one in February). This trip should put two (maybe three) more stamps in there.

While I'm on the topic of going places... anyone want to go to Tofino with me this summer?

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