Here is the update:

I have quit taking any new projects full stop.  I have been referring leads to whoever can help them best.

I am currently winding up a lot of the projects I’ve been working on so that I will have a lighter load as I spend the last few weeks doing things I need to get done before I fly out:

• getting my International Driving Permit, getting more passport photos to submit with IDP (DONE)
• returning things that I’ve borrowed (library – DONE, floor sample – ALSO RETURNED)
• dropping off my pile of old clothes to Goodwill (DONE)
• calling my credit card/phone companies to let them know I will be overseas
• making photocopies of my passport in case of loss
• printing out all the itineraries & airbnb stuff
• plus packing the PERFECT carry on & whatever else I need to work out beforehand (this may be a future post – I am only slightly obsessed with capsule wardrobes!)

So that’s the quick sum-up & I just realized it’s coming so much faster now since I waited to publish this post!