Leaving for the airport in twenty minutes.
Grandma's ring: on finger.
Forty pages of family photos, documents, and family trees: in folder.
Bags: packed and by the door.
Going through the motions of packing and physically putting everything together (and straightening my hair at 2 this morning so I don't have to deal with it on the plane) has really helped prepare me mentally. I don't exactly know where I'm staying tomorrow night--possibly a hostel?--and I don't know what I'm going to be doing before I meet up with another participant to go to the house on Sunday night, but I'm miraculously okay with it. I am so used to having everything planned and managed and ready, but I'm realizing that even though there is not much planned or managed right now, I am ready. The next 48 hours don't matter much--it's the five days after that.
I probably won't post until I get to Germany, so auf wiedersehen!
#bye
ARL
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