Well, I am about as packed as I can be tonight — all that’s left are the things I will have to pack up in the morning. As in, between 3 and 4 in the morning. My father picks me up here at 4 a.m.; my flight leaves Nashville at 6:12. I am so used to packing for mission trips I had to stop and think about what to bring for a trip like this!

The last domestic round-trip flight I took — which must have been the last time I went to see Mike and Kelly, in 2000 or so — was before the age of online check-in. And I haven’t been able to use it on my mission trip flights; you have to check in the old-fashioned way. So this is the first time I will have boarding passes in hand before I get to the airport. There’s supposed to be a self-serve kiosk inside for checking your baggage, which would save me having to pay the guys at curbside.

Meanwhile, speaking of my mission trips, tonight of all nights I got some long-awaited specific details about the Bolivia trip. I will be gone June 28 through July 11; we will be working with the Quechua people in a rural area outside Cochabamba. The total cost will be less than the Kenya trips but more than the Nicaragua trip in 2003.