While I don't expect to know where I'm travelling months or years in advance, it is a bit odd to throw a big trip together just a few weeks before departure. Weird for most people I should say, but it's downright normal when it comes to travelling with Greg.
This will be something like our 8th(?) trip together outside the U.S. Let's see if I can list them here: Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Bonaire, Mexico, Nepal, El Salvador, Slovenia/Italy, and now it's Vietnam/Cambodia/Thailand on this go-round we've slated for Feb! (I sure hope I'm not forgetting one, as he'd razz me incessantly.)
He has been in "uber-vacation-research-mode" for the last month or so, and we'd just about talked ourselves into going to Majorca when we suddenly reversed course and locked-onto Vietnam instead. It's riskier in terms of flights, much further away, much more expensive, and just a lot more work than the trip around that beautiful island in the Med, but we both think we better do something LARGER......... like Asia...while we still can. The flight route to get there is daunting to think about: Den-Chicago/LA-Tokyo-Guangzhou(China)-Ho Chi Minh......most of that standby.
Now, I scramble to get everything done: had to get a new passport, then ship it right back out for a visa for Vietnam, then I'm getting a bunch of shots my doc thinks I need, then off to the dentist so I don't have to get work done in a bamboo clinic somewhere in da jungle, then, then, then.....
Should be fun!
-r
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