Yes, planning for the USA Tour is taking a step forward… followed swiftly by several backwards. It, horribly, means Thinking About Stuff, Finding Out About Stuff and, you know… working… It’s also expensive. The trip, not so much the planning.

Still, the train from DC to LA is booked (huzzah!) so we have three days accomodation and food at least. Just got to work on the bits in between now. Alas, alack, I came to book the Good Hostel in San Francisco, and suddenly, whoosh! – all booked up. Shocking, I know, that they aren’t just automatically making room for LisaMan and myself. Still, what can you do?

Nonetheless, I have vague plans for making myself a tour T-shirt.

Also, a birthday present for Phosie is underway, a sort of plan for T-Kup’s kind of exists, and I had an idea for Hazel, but I’m not sure I can pull it off in time. That may well have to be a late present.

Well, now that I’m once again in debt to my dad, and STILL in debt to my aunt (heh, yes, well, I can’t pay them for Austria until they tell me how much it is…) my bank balance is soon to be looking distinctly less healthy than it did the last time I looked at it. Thankfully, I have a further eight weeks of work at Seawhite, so plenty of money to be earnt…

America countdown – 8 weeks, 1 day