We must be Mad!

Both Mum and I suffer from an obsessive need for organisation and tidiness!

For the next two months everything we need must be carried on our backs and we have both been getting a sick sense of enjoyment out of organising all of our belongings into sandwich sized snap-lock bags with themes such as sleep, electronics and beauty.

This is about the point where our similarities end!

Mum and I have developed quite different approaches to this trip. Mum is running on adrenaline and fear! She is frantic and hyped. She is marching up and down mountains with books inside her pack, frantically making copies of all of our documents and writing down phone numbers in case her phone dies. Mum is smart and prepared!

Me? I have a more passive approach. It could also be a considered a ‘bury your head in the sand’ style. I have been crap at practicing my walking. I just have been going to work, drinking wine in the weekends, buying anti-stink t-shirts from Lululemon, Googling if you can take nail clippers in carry-on luggage (you can), and silently panicking about running out of money. I am not smart or prepared!

We are different Mum and I, we are like yin and yang and we balance each other out perfectly. I think we are both mad in our own special way, but together it will work! Mum will amp me up when I need it, and I will calm her down. We are both mad but who cares, we are mad together.