Be The Jam

I seem to be adapting back to living in the woods quite easily, having got used to sleeping on the floor again I am actually really liiing  be back and it is giving me renewed energy to get my act together and get to the Jungle. Having access to the internet again is helping as it means I am able to network and hassle people and so make the thing more of a reality.

I have set an arbitrary date to leave of June the 20th, it is extremely unlikely that I will have all that I need by then, what I don't have will just make life more interesting I guess. I have a couple of ideas on fundraising, one of which being to save all the money I would spend on rent over the next three months and use that to buy innoculations and a plane ticket. I did some rough sums last night and the  Mission Improbable kitty currently contains the dizzying sum of minus one hundred pounds. I do have a rucksack, generously provided by Berghaus, the promise of a jungle hammock and a jungle proof lap top.

There is quite a long list of things that I need but I have to consider the fact that whatever I take I will need to carry so for the moment at least I am trying to keep the list of things fairly short.

I need:

• to get to the jungle
• innoculations and a years worth of anti malaria drugs
• to learn how to fish
• insurance
• jungle proof solar pannels
• a stalite modem / satalite phone (jungle proof)
• money to live off
• a new fire steel.
• visas and other bits of paperwork allowing me to stroll around South America

To get to the jungle I'm going to start investigating the possibility of working my passage accross the alantic on a yatch. The other idea is to maybe fly to North America and then make the way south by land, that would involve going through Columbia, which could be interesting. I'm not sure if Columbia is the kind of place one wants to be discovered living off the land and carrying militarty grade communications equipment.