Lady of Leisure

Last Thursday was my last day at work where I received a lovely leaving present and enjoyed a great evening with friends at a local pub. This means that I’m now officially unemployed and enjoying a life of leisure. This does however mean that I need to get on my bike if I need to go anywhere (as they took back the company car) and have realised that I’m really not very fit. Fortunately only something positive can come out of this.


I’m having fun sorting out my American visa with the embassy as we don’t seem able to agree on what visa I need so I’m not free of the joys of ‘administration’ yet. I’ve been pretty successful in convincing friends and family that they need to buy my belongings and contribute to my travelling fund. All the stuff that I failed to convince people was useful or desirable have taken a trip to the charity shop or the tip so I’m only left with things that people are yet to collect or stuff that I’m going to store. This weekend Jen is coming to take all that she has staked a claim to so come Sunday she takes off with my sofas and most of my garden furniture so I’ve nothing to sit on and more importantly, nothing to sunbathe on!


I’ve booked my international flights and will fly out to America on 4th November. I’m flying into Washington DC where I plan to spend a week sightseeing before travelling to Nebraska and starting work with the trust. My return flight is booked from Santiago in Chile. Before long I will book my airpass for internal flights in The Americas and will book an organised trip through Columbia that I’m interested in and a trip to the Galapagos Islands. I’ve also got a week to take from my timeshare and am considering a week in Cancun in February before going out to Cuba.


As always, there is a still lot to do so I won’t bore you with the details. Needless to say I’ll be busy over the next few weeks so will update you soon on progress!