It’s really real. My last day at my Tenderloin job is next week, my house is rented, Carl’s house is rented, wedding plans are all made and we bought our 1 way plane tickets to Columbia. The second big day, after getting married, is November 4th. We still have no plans once we get there but that is usually what works best. 

Once we land in Columbia we hope to not see a plane for at least 3 continents (South America, Antarctica and Africa). We are trying to keep our carbon footprint low and all. We have managed to save a ton of miles but we ended up buying these tickets because they were sooo cheap- $210 each! It’s nearly cheaper to fly to Columbia than back to the east coast from California. 

The hard part of this trip is going to be packing. The goal is 2 backpacks only- one for me and one for Carl. I’ve traveled too much with double packs! (A big pack on the back and little one on the front) But packing for a year is hard. We’ll be in every kind of climate- warm and cold, windy and wet, snow. Clearly some things can me be picked up along the way but the bag is all we get.

And I of course don’t make it easy. I’ll have a Nikon 850 and 3 lens- wide zoom, standard zoom and telephoto. We also have a drone. There’s a 50/50 shot that’ll be confiscated as some point of the trip but until then it’s in the bag.  We’ll toss a GoPro in there as well- to round things off. So that’s one bag…