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Arrived safely and trying to take it all in but having to dose myself. Between the jetlag and sensory overload, I’m already fatigued and it isn’t quite 3 here. We made the drive from Entebbe to Jinja and our home base for the next week. A fantastic meal at The Keep in town and now unpacking and hanging out. So happy and thankful. Oh, and kitten love of GORUCK gear is universal.

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via IFTTT I’m off then — JFK (to LHR to EBB)

I have my passport, 2 cameras and 5 empty memory cards packed up in Betty (holding on with busted zipper, I couldn’t leave her out of this adventure). Duffle with liquids is checked and KnightRider also sits by my side, ready for departure into the very unknown.

I’ve taken a similar photo in many an airport but rarely with as much nervous, excited, wondrous energy. I am concentrating on gratitude. Thankful, deep breaths fill my lungs, squeezing against my already full heart. I finally understand the phrase “fit to burst.”

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via IFTTT Packing up — NYC

Excited. Nervous. Excited.

Checking items off lists mental and physical while dealing with the emotional apprehension of venturing into the unknown. Betty and Knight Rider have adventured a great deal with me for the last year and a half, yet this will be outside even my norms. Funny as I set up the blog again that I wrote so long ago about laying down to sleep in the US and waking up in Uganda. More likely England and Uganda over long flight connections tomorrow but I anticipate it to be much the same bleary-eyed wonder waking in a wonderfully strange (to me) world. Yep, mostly excited. Stay tuned.