Nerves

Wow. So it is technically 17 days until I depart for my SEVEN MONTH journey through Africa. I don't even know how to explain how I'm feeling about that. It's coming up so quickly and I've finally realized... wow, I'm actually doing this. I've said that before but this time it's going to happen. It MUST! The only way it won't is if the Toronto airport shuts down and they drag me out kicking and screaming the day I'm suppose to leave!!!!!!!!! I didn't have any fear of going until the last few days. I'm a little concerned about my connection from the Johannesburg Airport to a hotel for the night then to the train that over 26 hours will take me to Cape Town. I'm trying not to plan too much about this whole experience so that I can take things day by day as I like but people keep scaring me with stories of mugging. STOP THAT ALL OF YOU! I promise I'll be safe and I know I'll be taken care of! OKAY! I've got my international driving permit now which I am excited about (actually I just feel cool... does that make me cool?)... passport... check, vaccinations... check.... But I still have to book that ticket from JO'burg to Kenya so that I can get my Kenyan Visa straightened out. Time is winding down for that but hopefully by the end of the day on Monday I'll have booked that ticket. I guess that means I'll be ready to go. All that will be left to do is pack, unpack, prepack, unpack again and do this over and over till I finally decide on what I will have to leave behind and what will fit in my new traveller backpack which I'm sooooo pumped to use! Oh, and I'm sure I'll have a few freak out sessions as well! Alrighty.......... wish me luck! :)