Well, here I go.  I’m in Philadelphia now, en route to Sri Lanka via Doha, Qatar.  I got everything packed last night, and the baggage situation ended up being pretty manageable:



One last parting thought before I hit foreign soil…. while I was researching local fauna and flora of Sri Lanka, I stumbled across this:



Are you kidding me???  I hate spiders!  I am uncontrollably and irrationally terrified of them.  They are my Achilles heel.  All I could think of was Indiana Jones:



Except of course, exchange SPIDERS for snakes.  Thanks for reading!