Pre-planning

so i am not very good at planning trips, let alone long trips as this one will be. i dont know any of the dates that we will be in any of the countries that i hope to be, nor any of the places that we will be sleeping. we'll see what happens, but i am sure that everything will work out just fine. in any case, paola is very good at these sorts of things, so she is taking the initiative to address a lot of these sorts of issues. she might be called, as they say, my better half; certainly i cant do the work that she's doing. in fact, if it were up to me, we would probably end up sleeping in the street, which might be fun in theory, but i'm pretty sure even i wouldnt like that. i am confident that any place that we stay will be pretty nice. so basically, its a good thing that she is with me (for everything) or i might just loose it.