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<h1><a href="/2013/05/12/its-go-time">It’s go time!</a></h1>
<p><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i> Posted on 12 May 2013</p>
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<p>My bags are packed, almost all my things are sold/donated/given away. Tomorrow
morning I get up early to head to the airport, say good bye to Melbourne and fly
off to Vietnam to start my trip.</p>
<p>I’m feeling a mixture of excitement, sadness, terror and exhaustion. It’s been a
busy week sorting out the last of my things and catching up with people for the
last time. The past 3 days I’ve been doing stuff pretty much non-stop; now I
finally get to sit down and not feel like there’s something else I need to be
doing.</p>
<p>It’s going to be different not being able to regularly see and hang out with
people I’ve known for more than a few days. I’m hoping that with practice I get
better at small talk and meeting new people, so maybe that’ll be less of an
issue.</p>
<p>I guess there’s not much more I can do right now, but strap in and wait for this
wild ride to start…</p>
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<h1><a href="/2013/05/07/last-minute-bag-choices">Last minute bag choices</a></h1>
<p><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i> Posted on 07 May 2013</p>
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<p>So I bought the 40L bag I’d been eyeing off last week. After doing a few trial
packs with it, I’ve decided that I cant fit everything I want in it well enough,
so tomorrow I’m taking it back to see what my other options are.</p>
<p>I can just about fit everything in the 40L bag, but it’s stuffed so tight that I
have concerns about my laptop getting cracked if the bag were dropped, or
something was dropped on it; and it doesnt give me any excess room whatsoever.</p>
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<h1><a href="/2013/04/22/target-40-litres">Target 40 Litres</a></h1>
<p><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i> Posted on 22 April 2013</p>
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<p>So when I was last in the adventure district looking at travel gadgets
and clothing, I was talking to one of the staff in the store and he put the idea
in my head that travelling with just a small backpack would make a lot of things
easier.</p>
<p>It means you can keep your bag with you in a lot of situations where you’d
otherwise have to leave it in the luggage section and hope it doesn’t get
searched through too much by dodgy characters, and it allows you to use crowded
public transport much easier, or even just walk distances that you wouldnt want
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<h1><a href="/2013/04/08/the-little-things-that-make-up-a-life">The little things that make up a life</a></h1>
<p><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i> Posted on 08 April 2013</p>
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<p>The hardest part so far of packing my life into a bag and heading off for an
indefinite period has been trying to get rid of the huge amount of stuff I own.
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but once you remove all that stuff from your life you’re left with a massive
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<h1><a href="/2013/03/26/twenty-years-from-now">Twenty years from now</a></h1>
<p><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i> Posted on 26 March 2013</p>
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didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from
the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.</div>
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<h4><i class="fa fa-info-circle fa-lg fa-fw"></i> About Lucas</h4>
<p class="blurb">An account of Lucas' epic travels, exciting
adventures, challenging misfortunes and lucky breaks. They rarely
happen with to any real plan, but generally these kinds of things
just take care of themselves and I just enjoy the ride.</p>
<p class="blurb">I try to post something to this blog at least once a month (I'm trying to get better), and it tends to run several months behind real-time.</p>
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