I'll cut to the chase.
Two days after Super Bowl Sunday, Kari and i will be boarding a plane heading West...to the Far East. And we probably won't be coming back for a long time. We've saved enough money to be out in the open world for at least a year. We have no real agenda, no real itinerary. We can do whatever we want, wherever we want. If we meet some friends who are going North to Russia for a few weeks, well, we can go with. If we love a certain country, we can stay as long as we want to. If we get bored and want to come home after six months, we can. Essentially, we'll be winging it every step of the way. That's piece one.
Countries we'd like to spend time in? China, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Tibet, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Bosnia, Croatia, Egypt, Kenya, South Africa. Countries we'll actually spend time in? Who knows.
Piece two: We'll be doing as much as we can by land. If we can get there by boat, car, train, bus or by foot, we'll probably take that way. One of the luxuries of having no plans or itinerary is that you can really see the world, from the ground. Avoid planes is our motto.
Our map is gonna have a little more red in it after 2007.
9 comments:
If you want some hospitality off the beaten path, I have contacts in rural Kenya (3-4 hrs from Nairobi). I'm meeting them in Louisville in 3 weeks...
Hope to see you before you leave...
And I hope you post here from time to time on this trek...?
Adam: Sounds like that might be a good connection. What's their story?
Coach: Yes, I hope to get some time together around the holidays. And as for posting while we're gone...we're trying to work out a deal to write pieces for a magazine/paper. So we'll see what happens. You know how publishing rights work!
Sounds like you're doing your own "Amazing Race." :)
See you next week!
Mandy
To travel around the globe as the wind directs . . . seems to be the logical conclusion for an adventurous heart.
Wow. I'm SO jealous! That's EXACTLY what I've always wanted to do. We did something "like" that (on a much less grand scale) in Mexico, but that was like two weeks tops!
Definitely make your way to Tibet. I spent a few weeks there in 2001. At that point it was still totally lost in time and saturated with history. I felt the same way about Moscow. Very cool.
Josh,
Eric and I have a few CRM connections if you would like to crash in Bosnia, Serbia, Budapest, Cambodia, Moscow, France, and South Africa. We should talk soon!
Nat
I just read this today...if you decide to come to Bosnia, you are more then welcome to crash with me! I live an hour away from Split Croatia, in s sweet little city called Livno. I am so excited for you guys, and that you are actually doing what most people only talk about late at night when life is getting them down...Cao
We bought one way tickets to Hong Kong last night. Oh, it's ON. :)
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