Launch Minus 50 hours

Well, I didn't do to well with my blogging everyday did I? Truth be told I thought a bottle of Whisky would help with that getting out of work thing you need to do when you go away anywere. From now on sticking to Ale, preferably Burton brews.

I've been watching some Ray Mears videos to get me in the mood. Big mistake. Now, don't get me wrong, that one of him going the river in Canada in a canoe is ace, but if you read his bushcraft book you ain't never going, because you'll never be ready or know enough. And another think, he starts of in the introduction about how this books only scratching the surface of what you need to know, and then you flick through and you get "I prefer Lycra cycling shorts to underpants" .....I mean, what are they going to think in the hospital if I have to get air lifted out!

No, I'll be taking 'Lofty' Wiseman's SAS Survival Guide. He's more about survival being in the head. I like that. And he tells you how to deal with Bear Attacks.

Apart from what I stand up in, this is the boat fully loaded for the trip. Surely I haven't forgotten anything.