I made the mistake of looking at the calendar yesterday and realized that I only have three weeks left to pack all my worldly belongings into storage, shop for new travel clothes, pack a suitcase to live out of for three months, and cancel/hold/pay all my bills/mail/accounts. Basically, life as I know it is coming to a swift and unanticipated end.
At least all of the airfare is paid. The train into London via the chunnel too. Hotels in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, and our Great Barrier Reef tour are locked in. Bangkok as well but I'm still waiting to hear on options for Phuket. The place we looked at was nice and all but the reviews were not so hot. Plus, it looks really tall and I don;t want to climb all those stairs! I think Italy is solid as well. Greece will be a little trickier since we plan to move around a lot. Hell, I will gladly sleep on anyone's couch who will let me when I'm in these places if for no other reason than I'm there.
So far, I've been looking into some of the places we're going through some travel books I bought at Powell's. I have to say: I am surprised at how excited I am getting for Thailand. It was one of the places I was least excited to go to and now, after having read up a little on the Thais and their amazing culture, I am seriously stoked to see what a modern Buddhist society looks like. Plus, Bangkok makes Vegas look like a fricking petting zoo. So there's that.
Until then, I will keep posting random updates about the pre-travel part of this whole thing. Feel free to check in from time to time. I might just do the same.
-D@N
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