Wow there is a ridiculous amount of preparations to make for this trip. I'm not just talking about where to go what to eat and how to get there. I'm talking about everything that I have to take care of here, at home. Even more so since I bought some property, so I made myself a little laundry list. The list of course does no justice to the amount of time and number of phone calls to complete each item but I'll just say, a long time.
+Property+
-Set up property management while I'm away including all the permissions they need.
-Pay the water bill through May
-Pay the Garbage bill through May
-Set up loan payments.
+Personal+
-Complete my health insurance application (Which ended up falling through, much wasted time for nothing)
-Apply for use of vacation and PTO time @ work
-Request an extended leave of absence from work
-Set up automatic payments for my student loans (Some loans are still in deferment and I can set them to auto pay till after I've left, Grrr.)
-Pay storage unit up through may (I ended up just paying for the year)
-Appointment @ the travel clinic for immunizations. (Hep A, Hep B, Typhoid, Tetanus, Meningitis) *Wanted to get Rabies but its $650 and Japanese Enceph was $500*
-Set up someone to do my taxes while I'm gone.
-Get the rest of the gear needed for this trip
-Update my passport
-Ensure all of us will be able to get the proper Visa's for each country
-Extend my credit limit (just in case)
-Set up a cancel date for my Internet
-Set up a cancel date for my phone.
-Set up a blog (Jeff did this, *Applaud*)
-Christmas shopping!
-Move out of my place
So all of these are about done by the time I'm posting this and I'll just have to make sure I don't piss off any rabid monkeys.
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