The excitement - I can feel it now. What was for months nothing more than a cool idea and a few interesting lines of conversation to toss at friends over drinks is now something rather more. It's really dawning on me that in less than 3 days time, we'll be living out of two and a half backpacks, while throwing ourselves halfway around the world. The more rooted part of me wants to grab my own neck and shake it like a crazy man, and scream "what the hell are we getting ourselves into??". The crazy part of me wants to jump up and down and yell "Woohoo!!!" I think the crazy part is winning. -Derek (and only Derek for the moment; Sandra doesn't have time for these petty considerations right now - she's trying
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