The morning after booking, I feel like I made a great decision! I just wanna get out there!!!!! :)
Ride!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
I still feel somewhat under the weather from New Year's, but solid enough to ride! :)
Last onion in the oven! That sounds like it should be a phrase. :)
I'm sick of seeing the same things each day. And of having the choices of staying indoors or going over the same few routes. I want to travel to new outdoors locations!
No more booze in the place! No more fruit in the place!
Starting to feel increasingly like a young guy's fridge: pre-cooked foods and condiments! :)
I think when I get back on the road, I'm going to feel way overloaded but hopefully able to ride at a decent clip!
Yeah! Weather says no rain Saturday. Does say rain Sunday, when I'm not preparing to ride. Who trusts the weather, anyways? :)
Interesting. Looking at the local listings, vacation rentals cost around as much here as on Marie-Galante, maybe even more?! So I guess I can probably find somewhat affordable longer-term rentals on MG?
Apartments/hotels are like people, the average ones generally look and work about the same, plus there are a few rotten and a few wonderful ones! :)
Looking back over my booking process (jejej, overanalyzer)... Seems like I made some missteps that would plausibly have become issues anyways. Often I feel like that's the case, there are gotchas along the way that you're going to encounter. As such I think it makes sense often just to go ahead and start your planning/actions, even knowing that you'll make some mistakes. Instead of thinking (probably wrongly) that if you hold off you'll eventually find some method without hitting those gotchas. (For some types of activities where you can't afford the mistakes, I think it can nonetheless make sense to plan even more overanalytically to wipe out as many of those gotchas as you can beforehand.)
I referred to reviews and other details a bit more than average this time. Sometimes I just book without looking, other times I've exhaustively looked through details before booking.
Another trivially small frustration: office solution for note-taking is working slowly, I'm mainly reverting to the basic note-taking tool.
At several stages during the planning it looked like it may have become infeasible, e.g. due to difficulties with finding rentals, but I think that doesn't make sense. It should be feasible.
Already adding to my calendar the upcoming plans! Dominica ho!!!!!
Aiming for March/April, after vaccines, but may have to push that back if the COVID fascism remains bad.
It's been one of my slower years, with COVID BS, but at least I did take care of some long-term projects like DNA sampling, new bank accounts, etc. Plus I tried some more French Caribbean culture.
Even with a place and a boat ticket booked, it feels surreal that I'm going!!!!! :)
I'm going to armar my bici, see how ready I really am! :)
Adding structure to my notes...
Can't wait to travel around MG! I'm going not only for the vaccines, but also so that on these clear days I can go explore new places! :)
I'm doing some OCD planning, and that's ok. I haven't bike toured in like over a year. And it's a somewhat complex ride to start, with a ferry ride.
You can adjust to tons of stuff. As such, I think it makes sense to pick what you want, force yourself to do it, then make necessary adjustments. I think I and others have already covered that idea a ton.
It feels great to go ahead with projects! To make progress!
I don't mind the OCD planning, it's kind of fun! :)
At least I'm seeing some results from my OCD preps up to now!
The more time passes, the more I want to go! And the better I feel about the decision. Act now!!!!!
Just go ahead and do great things!!!!! :)
Fuck COVID fascism! :)
Time to pack for a ride within the country but to another island! :)
Now assembling my final packing checklist! Not that many critical things.... phone, laptop, wallet, passport. That's enough to see the world!
There's not much of a more relieving feeling than packing stuff while throwing out the useless old things! :)
I think I should just get rid of as much stuff that I won't use as I can, instead of carrying it around by bike for kilometers. Not sure that I'm gonna go through with that.
I'm going to make a "maybe" pile. Things that I should probably leave but for whatever reason have difficulty throwing out. Old phone, old laptop, old jacket. Broken things that I have some vague thought of repairing but in practice probably would never use.
I think I'm now down to somewhat around or slightly over what I'd feel comfortable carrying with saddlebags. Given that I'm doing the next islands/rides with only a backpack and some "carry-ons", I want to take off more weight. Shed some pounds.
I have far more food than I need or can use before going. I may leave some, or carry it to MG then eat it there. Like carrying some groceries.
Last few days in Capesterre!!!!!
Go out there and make some accidents happen! :)