I applied for my passport today, woot! It might not
seem like a big deal to those of you that do a lot of travelling, but
to me it signals impending travel… You never know when you’ll have to
go to Reykjavík, Burkina Faso, or even Kerguelen, so it’s important to
have your passport… Should get it in about 6 weeks. Other than saving
money, this was the only thing I really needed to do this year for my
Cairo trip. I’ll apply to the program in January and hopefully have all
the money things worked out by April. Then it’s an airline ticket and a
visa from the Egyptian embassy and I’m set! SIGH, just one year and two
months to go…

Isaac