Packing and Mapping

As more and more of our 2011 CCUSA counselors head overseas for the experience of a lifetime our focus at the CCUSA NZ office turns to making sure next years counselors have the best possible camp experience (amongst other things like all our winter programs of course!).  And so, the challenge has been bestowed upon me...do a Trek America tour, take lots of photos and find out all the best places to tell our counselors to visit in their grace period (gosh you lot are demanding! ;p).

After creating a 'Trek America Live' profile (which is super cool by the way [ Check it out:  http://www.trekamericalive.com/User/?Section=1&UserId=3603 ] - it has a virtual map, blog, groups page for all your fellow trekkies and you can link it to your Facebook to keep all your buddies posted back at home with how much fun your having without them), googling my way through the 'must see's' of the West Coast of the USA and you-tubing trek vids under the code of 'research' I am totally pumped and ready to rock!

And so, the 'Westerner 2' and I are ready to get involved!  Its a two week trek of the West cost - LA, Pacific Coast, San Fran, Yosemite and Sierra Nevada, Vegas, the Grand Canyon, Lake Havasu and San Diego, and back to LA.  Jealous?  You should be! ;p

Totally enjoying that Trek tours involve camping and hiking and outdoorsy stuff (I hope I'm still psyched about that when I'm jet lagged and grumpy...), and they're small van tours so you get to really know your groupies (no coach buses for me, suckers!).

One day to go and I'm still avoiding negotiating the tower of doom (aka my suit case stash).  On the positive I am highly skilled in the area of packing (fitting months of your life into a bag to go traveling regularly will do that to you ;p) and procrastinating (because packing is the most boring task I've encountered in this little project so far - note the sleeping bag testing...say no more!).

Anyhow...assuming all that goes to plan and the volcanic ash chilling over NZ disappears in time for my flight to whisk me away to the USA I'll blog soon on the flip side! :)

                     

    Peace.  Love.  Trek.