I am all ready to go.  There is only so much packing, unpacking, weighing and trying to lose a few kilos of unnecessary gear one can do.  Everything I am bringing with me is essential, and minimal.  My 4 panniers and the tent bag on the back weigh a total of 25.4 kilos.  Add another 5 kilos of water and three gas canisters (I'll buy those in Honningsvag) and I am just around 32 kilos.  That's as light as I can make it.  I think, maybe, as I go south and it gets warmer I might box up some heavier clothes and mail them back to me.   I have checked and re-checked the airlines to make sure that the tickets are all in order.  I have downloaded all the apps I might need onto my phone.  So now I wait another week.  I'm excited about this.  A little nervous.  I have a feeling somewhere in the middle I will have been stripped of all preconceived notions of self, all my arrogance, my ego...I will be left with the core of my being and this will guide me.  Certainly it will not be some La-Di-Da jaunt.  Life awaits on the table in front of us.  Take big bites.