The Purple Binder

As we run up toward departure day (just a week from today!) there's one object we obsess over. We must not forget to pack the Purple Binder!

The Purple Binder contains the fruits of literally hundreds of hours of Marian's work in planning this trip. It has details of every day's itinerary, cross-referenced to page numbers in the Rough Guide to New Zealand, and with URLs to websites as needed.

It has printouts of Google maps. It has printouts of websites. It has forms we've mailed to reserve different excursions.

This particular Purple Binder is a well-travelled binder. It served the same function for our trip to England in 2003. In fact, the divider pages in it still have words like "Oxford" and "Coventry" on them.

Must... not... forget... the Purple Binder!