Sam’s Blog

So I’m sitting here late this Thursday night, and I’ve finally got my blog set up. Boy, that “5-minute” set-up that WordPress promised really turned out to be more like half an hour! Today I went to REI and bought really light rain jacket (I already have a heavy jacket, but I wanted something I could easily stuff into my backpack for short trips), the suggested basic first aid kit, and a little travel pillow so that I can hopefully arrive rested in Sydney after the long flight. I also bought a pair of those expensive Bose QuietComfort 2 noise-cancelling headphones, in the hope that they, too, would let me get some more sleep. (You see, I can sleep on planes, but only in intervals of ten-fifteen minutes that are few and far between.) Plus, I needed some new headphones anyway. Hopefully they’ll turn out to have been a good buy. Tomorrow I’m planning on starting the packing. Yikes! I just realized that tonight is the last chance I’ll have to say goodbye to my stepsister and stepbrother. I better do that. Tomorrow I’ll start really getting down to the packing, and my flight leaves at 11:45PM L.A. time on Saturday. Oh, one other cool thing: Today I went by the bank to pick up some Australian foreign exchange currency that I’d ordered. I’d never done that before, so it was quite an interesting experience.