Header reference: Fugees – Here I Come

“How is the preparation going? You must have everything wrapped up by now!”

… Ah ah ah. Nop. Not-at-all.

Throwback to September 2022: I have been dreaming for years about travelling. I have also realized that tracking time has become part of my habits, and that I feel odd without a watch on (yes, I am old school). We are getting slowly out of the corona crisis, and we are all waking up groggy, as if after a bad dream. The frontiers are reopening gradually. We wear masks and we need antigenic tests to perform any outside activity.

“We should pick a date for our trip. You know, to make it concrete.”

The initial date was January 2024, picked out of random. The final one would be March, 1st 2024, to better fit our work constraints.

Fast forward to February 2024: today is Monday February, 19th 2024, exactly 2 weeks before the first flight will bring us to the thousands of years old India. I literally have no backpack anymore, we are still 3 vaccines short, we have our heads filled with destinations and places but nothing more than our plane tickets.

But you know what?

Ready or not, here [we] come!