Last Call
Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
We are leaving in just over 12 hours. Let me give a basic overview of the trip for those of you who don’t know. Basically, my sister, Melissa, and I are going going to backpack through Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam over the next 2 months. At the end of July Melissa will come home and I will go on to China. I’m going to try and find a job in China and work for about 6 months, probably doing ESL. I haven’t lined up a job yet so I am not sure where I’ll be. I’d like to be somewhere between Hong Kong and Shanghai. I didn’t want to sign a contract before hand as I wouldn’t really have an idea of where I’d be agreeing to work. Finding a job over there is riskier, but hopefully will pay off with a much better job/location.
After China, I am going to travel through the Chinese interior, passing through Tibet (and maybe Nepal) to India. I’ll have about 2 months at this point, I’m not sure if I’ll spend it all in India or what. The idea is to just be flexible and go with the flow.
I had been telling everyone that I was going to bring a micro bag that would fit little more than deoderant and dental floss. Well, I got to the store and all those bags were too small to fit me properly. I needed one tall enough that the hip straps actually reached down to my hips, so the bag I got was a little bigger than I had wanted. But as the picture (hopefully) shows, I’m trying to keep things down to a minimum. Hopefully I have struck the right balance.
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