It's Happening!

IT'S HAPPENING!

I have confirmed tickets to fly out from London Heathrow on the 10th of April, getting me in the following day at Atlanta, Georgia!  Then I have a flight home from Boston Logan on the 8th of October to London again!  These aren't direct flights, though but they are fairly cheap and I can adjust them for free(ish) thanks to STA's multiflex pass.

As such, I am very very excited!  I am also panicking a little about my gear list.  Here's a link to my lighterpack list; but this isn't final yet.  It's sitting at about 12 or 13kg, when I want it to be around 9kg really.  If I ditch some of the starred items, I get it down a kilo or two but not to that 'magic' number of 9.  So yeah, I'm worrying over that.  It's probably unnecessary but still.  Now that I have flights booked, thoughts keep racing through my head such as"What if I don't make it?" or "What if I trip?" and these mostly turn into "What if my bag is too heavy and makes me fall?" or "What if my bag is too heavy and slows me down?".

To try to help deal with this, I'm rereading and rewatching other things.  I just finished rereading How To Hike The Appalachian Trail by Chris Cage, and started rewatching Dixie's Homemade Wanderlust (since completing the AT, she has gone on to do both the Pacific Crest Trail and Continental Divide Trail).  I also plan to rewatch both Darwin On The Trail and Follow Bigfoot.  I'll also try to get around to rereading Appalachian Fail by John Desilets's failed through-hike.  Hopefully, they'll help calm my fears, and if they don't?  Well.  I'll just have to start hiking scared.