So long, and thanks for all the love...

I've uninstalled Discord and powered down my Steem - my bags are by the door and I'm OUT.

Oh don't be silly, this gal ain't powering down. I HAVE uninstalled Discord though - I need a break from messages and servers. As much as I love everyone, and love helping, it's wearing me down. I need a good old break to gather energy to come back with a bit more vim and vigour. Two years of nearly non stop posting and commenting not only with my account, but with Natural Medicine, and I'm exhausted - and real life has been a bit nuts too. I'm hoping when I come back all the Tron stuff is sorted and the crossposting malarkey has ironed itself out. Let alone community blah blah blah. I'm not even posting this in a community - so there!

Writing this, the day before our flight, I'm feeling the stress. I love travelling, and I'm a good traveller - I'm good under pressure. But getting the house ready for being away for 8 months, constant news reports about coronavirus, and all the other things we've had on our plate, I feel pretty knackered right now. I'm hoping Jamie can just direct me from airport to airport until we're finally in Delhi, in the house that @yangangze is accomodating us in (thankyou, darling Shinobi!). I think I'll just sleep on the plane as much as I can.

All this fear mongering by the media has filtered down into my subsconcious, I think. They make you believe the world is a dangerous place. As much as I brush it off and take it all with a pinch of salt, it does kinda affect you. But I've got the facemasks and the hand sanitiser, and a bottle of immune defence meds (zinc, c, astralagus, echinacea, olive leaf) and my pharmacist has even told me that it's all blown out of proportion, which I do know, but still. It's not going to be an easy transit to India.

Before long though, we'll be relaxing in our ayurveda yoga retreat outside Rishikesh, and then onwards into the foothills of the Himalaya, a million miles from all the pre travel lists and worries. This is what happens, when you go a-wandering. The lead up is worse than the doing. I can see why people don't leave home!

But I've longed for this - the road ahead of me, a bit of freedom for a while, some dust from other countries between my toes.

I might pop in from time to time, but a big part of me is super, super happy to be disconnecting. There's a post or two on schedule to fulfil some obligations, and I'll be darn upset if I come back and no one comments on this one, but I'm done with Steem for a bit. Don't break the place whilst I'm gone.