The Beginning...

"It was only through seeing my reflection in the looking glass of other cultures that I'd finally be able to explore the dark continent I held inside. The outer journey and the inner one were stiched together by a certain inevitability, a shared momentum."

Where do I even begin...well, as Julie Andrews said in The Sound of Music, "Let's start from the very beginning, a very good way to start..."

Colleen and I spent the entire day running around trying to get ready for our big adventure. We ran to "The place that shall not be named" (ie: Walmart) to pick up last minute supplies and even made a stop as Sam' Club to get a video camera. To our pleasant surprise they had a DVD camera onsale for a VERY reasonable price. We decided to splurge and bought the item...BUT we had to buy the floor model. As the woman was wrapping it up we were suprised at all the "extras" it came with...battery charger, disks, tri-pod, etc. HOWEVER, to our not so pleasant surprise, when we putsing with it loooooong after Sam's Club had closed, we discovered that the woman had forgotten to include...THE BATTERY. We called Wal-Mart, but they were unable to help=( And there starts and ends our dreams of creating a documentary of our travels through Aussie-land and NZ!

So, we continued on our mission of pulling an all-nighter so we could sleep on the plane, and I began packing!