Life's a garden, dig it?

Only two short weeks until I leave for my overseas trip where I'll spread my lame humour and test foreign public nudity laws. Having already organised my flights and opting to worry about accommodation until I arrived at a destination which I told myself was being "adventurous" which is really code for "Stupid & Disorganised" I only had a few items left to sort out which were;

Vaccinations- I figured getting myself inoculated against any foreign diseases that would attempt to lay siege to my system would be wise so I booked a doctors appointment. The doctor suggested that I get shots for Typhoid Fever, Hepatitis A, Cholera and Tetanus as well as a range of tasty pills to protect against Malaria and toilet-glue (diarrhoea). We then had the following conversation;

Doctor- "You should have these shots at least 4 weeks before leaving on your trip, how long until you leave?

Myself- "Errr 2 weeks?"

Doctor- *Chuckles" "Bit disorganised aren't you?"

Myself- "I kinda like to look at it as being adventurous!"

Taking his advice I decided to have the full range of needles and probably should have also demanded the “Heart-Attack Prevention Needle” after he presented me with a bill for $400. I wasn’t expecting a hefty bill like that but paid it without a whimper as I’d prefer to pay the money than get struck down by some crazy disease and spend the entire holiday in bed cursing myself for being a tightass. The doctor only had the Tetanus needle on hand so he jabbed me with that and I have to return tomorrow for the rest of them.

Now that I had the needles out of the way I went shopping for a backpack as suitcases were blacklisted on this trip as I planned on roughing it for most of the trip and wheeling about a suitcase just isn’t practical. I scuttled into a camping store and some young fella’ quickly convinced me that http://www.blackwolf.com.au/engine/SID/1000029/AID/100141.htm was the bag for me. It had a detachable daypack which I was looking for and space for a water bladder which I quizzed the young salesman on;

“Now this water bladder…will it only take water or could I put other liquids in there?”

“Any liquid will be fine, I myself put Gatorade in mine”

“So I could put Bourbon in there?”

“Ummm yes I suppose you could?”

“You’ve got yourself a sale!”

The backpack also is front-loading so you don’t have to open from the top and rip everything out to get to an item at the bottom. The pack is adjusted to fit the shape of your back by 2 metal rails which you bend to match the shape of your back and they also leave painful red welts on the back of your legs when slapped as my room-mate found out (twice).

I also went shopping for an Ipod but the 60gb model I was after has been snapped up by the Christmas shopping frenzy so I might have to bite the bullet and get the smaller 30gb. Only other items left on the shopping list for my big trip was a new pair of shoes (mine are falling apart) and a pimp hat.

My stomach is grumbling so I'll cya next update buttplugs but before I leave here's evidence that you shouldn't buy young folk beer at NYE celebrations! (this picture was the result of exposure to a SINGLE beer, guess they're not breast-fed beer like us Aussies!)