360 in 365 – Joachim voyage autour du monde

Last things in Paris

I haven’t written here a lot, because I did things. Vaccinations, I had 3 rabies shots, plus one for the yellow fever, one for hep-A and Typhoïd, and one for Dyphtery, Tetanus and Polio. I also had my visas cared for me by Action-Visas, a visa agency whose buisness is to go queue at the ambassies for me. They are all super nice and give to charity. So I got my Russian, Mongol and Chinese visas! Yeah! By the way, prepare your documents in advance. I was forced to apply for my visas in Urgency mode because I was a bit late. And the costs were a tad higher, like 30 to 50€ per visas.

I also emptied my flat. All of my life is now in boxes or in my travel bags, except for a few comic books I left to Caroline, a high school friend, who’s inheriting the flat. Speaking of bags, I received mine, it’s a MEI Voyageur, and I have to say I’m really really happy with it. I haven’t traveled a lot yet, but the buying process was really smooth, the customer care was great and, well, the urgency mode worked well too, I received it just in time for the trip! So now my life’s in that bag, and another smaller bag for my computer, cameras and films and precious things. And it isn’t heavy at all! Well, a little bit heavy.

Okay so I’m rambling about all the things, but it’s because of the excitation before the trip. It’s tomorrow, you know… And speaking of which, the microsponsoring project is alive and well, I have had 140 microsponsors, that’s between 1/3 and half of the days that are financed. Thank you so much dear readers, family, friends and/or (ex-)colleagues! Thanks to you I may be able to survive around the world!

Yeah, I gave back my keys yesterday, all was well except that I didn’t have a place to sleep so I went to my sister’s in urgency mode, she’s a photographer, and I finally found a charitable soul with a pneumatic bed : my cousin and his wife. Before I go, I’m cleaning the dishes but don’t tell him, it’s a surprise. Shush! Let’s hope he won’t read this blog, my twitter or my Facebook before I give him his keys back.

By the way, it got me thinking, wouldn’t it be cool if that was my real first day of travel? you know, just before taking my plane, I’m not sleeping at home, everything’s in a tiny bag and such? And there’s also the bug in my blog’s countdown code, it displays the start of my travel today instead of tomorrow (I’m bad at PHP).

And last thing, I put all my CDs and hard drives in a box and I can’t access it now. And my iPod is filled with my “things to listen to while in the parisian métro”, so if you feel I could discover some new sounds, please give me the names! And some samples of course, but no full albums in MP3 that would be illegal and illegalness isn’t really cool I guess, I’m totally for giving money to artists. Yeah. My email: octolan@gmail.com.

Ok. Shower, dishes and zou!