Staging Info

Just found out some cool info about staging:

• My staging kit will be sent out the first week of October.
• Staging for us Namibia PCVs will be held in Philadelphia.

Tween

House sold: check...
Car sold: check...
All belongings in storage: check...
Quit job: check...
Fly to staging: waiting...

A while back, I decided to take a trip during the magical time between (i.e. the time just after quitting work and just before flying off to staging).

To my delight, the trip evolved (some people are saying mutated) and became a proper adventure. Point of note, one of the key ingredients for an adventure is:

• An outcome that is (at least slightly) in question.

I am planning on traveling for 6 weeks in an old-style sidecar motorcycle (with my 80 lb dog). My midpoint of the trip will be my sister's house in California (the house that contains my new nephew).

Since this trip doesn't really relate to the Peace Corps, I have created another blog to record all of the wonderful things that are bound to happen on the road to Cali...

• To Cali on Pandora

That Chaotic Energy is Back...

I'm still alive!

Not much has been happening on the Peace Corps front, and that's OK, because I am not exepecting anything to happen until mid-October.

I have been very busy carting belongings all over the state. The last four days I have driven over 6 hours each day! All of that is about done now...I just have to take care of the last 10% of miscellaneous things.

In a surprising twist of events, I have decided to take a different motorcycle on my cross-country trip. I will be taking a motorcycle with a sidecar. Now I will be able to bring my dog with me!

I can hardly wait to begin my road trip -- that chaotic energy is zooming all about inside of me right now.

Abbreviation is the Spice of Life

I received an email from the Peace Corps today (I think it is from the Namibia country desk).

They asked me to put my resume in a new format, the Namibia Abbreviated format - a very simple, one page resume.

It was fun to work on the document.

Jay.

Fracited

My house is getting empty, and I am hovering between frazzled and excited.

Only a couple of weeks before I need to move out...