One week to go!!!

One week from right now, I'll be anxiously waiting after over a 7 hour layover in the Miami airport to board our red-eye to Lima! Since she'll already be in town, I'm hoping Morgan can rescue me from the boredom of that layover, even if it's just to leave the airport to go out to dinner or something like that :) Our plane arrives at 4:45am, and I'm sure we're going to be exhausted. Unfortunately, the hotel won't let us check in that early for our stay there the 29th, so we decided to book a room for the 28th, just so we have a place to throw our bags, and most likely catch a nap before heading out to explore Lima a bit.

Yesterday, I think I picked up the last couple major items on my checklist of things I'll need for the trip, which were a set of rain pants, and a hat. I'm not a hat person in the least, but according to my survey in the office and on facebook, I pull this one off pretty nicely:
I need to pick up a few small things still, like a bottle of purell and a package of baby wipes (which I've read on numerous people's hiking blogs make a great substitute for showering when real showers aren't an option), but it feels good knowing that I have just about everything else ready.

Tomorrow I plan to do a dry run of packing everything up in my duffel bag, praying that my duffel bag is large enough and I won't need to buy a new one. I should also finally open up the hydration bladder I bought for my day pack and figure out how to clean it before leaving.

Other than that, I think I'm actually as prepared for this entire thing as I can get. Only 5 more work days to go before the adventure begins!

Until next time,

Ryan