At the weekend I realised, much to my annoyance that it there is still 6 months to go before the big trip. I have, bizarrely, convinced myself that there is very little preparation that can be done up front, in advance of flying out to South America.
This is of course a whopping miscalculation as the following need taking care of:
- Working out how to get to San Jeronimo in Southern Peru - and booking flights etc
- Selecting/finalising charities and doing the fundraising
- Learning Latin American Spanish
- Working out how to ride a motorbike (imagining there to be a sofa welded to the frame rather than a back wheel)
- Poring over maps and plotting some kind of provisional route through Amazon/Andes etc
As ever with these trips, the tangental possibilities are endless, and so it was that this weekend I ended up researching, cooking and eating a rather tasty
Peruvian Pork dish instead of doing any of the above.
