When you are on the World Race:
Your tent is your happy place. Seriously. It’s the best place ever. It’s so snuggly and personal and you can make it as messy as you want, where only you know where everything is in that giant heap of flashlights and dirty clothes and notebooks, as well as the system of organization behind it.
You do laundry by hand! Always!
As a consequence you learn exactly how long you can wear clothes before you have to wash them. The answer is again and again and again.
You learn how long you can go without washing your hair. Seriously. The showers are all cold, or buckets. You just don’t want to get your head wet. Besides, natural is healthy. 🙂
I am convinced that your sleeping pad is directly related to how happy you are. Big sleeping pads -> best thing ever. It improves life.
When you wake up, there is a good chance your first view is a mountainous landscape worthy of Lord of the Rings.
If your first view is not a mountainous landscape, there is a good chance it is a city exploding with people and a different, beautiful culture that you get to throw yourself into daily.
Your body cannot keep up with the changes in location, timezone, climate, and food that you are experiencing. What you are doing is hard. You will learn to work through and ignore the fact that your body is never feeling quite right.
New soap is like Christmas! You get to smell like a whole new smell for the next 2 weeks! How exciting!!
Communion is often done with your team using things such as leftover breakfast rolls and grape gatorade. I think it is beautiful.
What is this food? Close your eyes and eat it.
Welcome…to the World Race.
