Marian and I had a good afternoon training on the hill yesterday-the weather was just starting to break and we started to work off our many Easter feasts. There is gear laid out in the living room and the lists are in the phase where they get longer rather than shorter. We’re slowly collecting all the gear and clothes in one place though it’s tough because we still need to wear some of them while out training.

I’m cluing up the semester in the next few days and will have a mountain of grading to complete before the final phase of packing can begin. I’m activating a new SIM for the satellite phone and hoping it works when we get to Kathmandu because I can’t test it here (it only works over the pond since it’s on the Thuraya network).

The various countdowns have begun: one more class, 54 learning journals, 7 more hockey games, 10 more Signal Hills, 3 course outlines to prepare, two duffels to packs, and 1 partridge berry compote in a pear tree 🙂 It’s a familiar time before an expedition where I am easing out of one life and into another…tying up lose ends on one hand and packing a pack with the other.

This time in ten days we’ll be landing in Halifax for our overnight flight to London…