Thursday, February 24, 2011

Minor Rerouting

I got my new passport!  Sure, I look like a sweet little thing that's white as a sheet with smooth smooth wrinkle-free skin (thanks to the Korean photographers' collective love of Photoshop - yes, even in passport photos!), but it's much better than the criminal-like photo on my last passport! 

So the path of my upcoming little journey has changed a little... Turkey, Greece and Egypt have been taken out of the equation, and I'm spening more of my time in Bangladesh, Nepal, India and Sri Lanka instead... here is the updated route map with a few dates included (see mom - I told you there was a plan!).  While many dates are changeable, my route is set now - E X C I T I N G!!!!!


If you click on the map below it will open in a new window... you can make it bigger if you need to by holding "Ctrl" and pressing "+" a time or two ("Ctrl" and "-" make it smaller!) in that new window - you might want to do that if you're trying to figure out what on earth is going on when I hit Thailand, lol...

Me on the Map: March 3rd through July 30th(ish) 2011
 The dates are tentative except for the 4 flights I have booked; I'll come and go as I please otherwise in the destinations in between. 

On Friday morning I'm headed to the Bangladeshi embassy to uncover the mysteries of getting a visa to their country without an invitation from a private citizen, a public company, or an educational institution... I'm not sure exactly what's up with all that, but I'll find out when I get there!!!

Health and travel insurance, that too... I'll take care of that on Tuesday next week (thank god for the internet) before it's time to go while I'm moping in my hotel room.  Oh, and in case you're curious, the Canadian missions and embassies in each of these countries know when I'm headed into and out of each country, so I will know if there's any reason I shouldn't go, or should leave (like the part of Bangladesh I had to replan around for reasons I'm not going to discuss here in case mom is reading, haha!).  I am as informed as I can be, and I will continue to be so throughout my travels.

7 days and 10 hours to go... wow...

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My to-do List (May it Continue to Grow!)

Take a 'real' Korean class (check!)

Spend a weekend in the country (check!)

Try some kind of art class (maybe painting?)

Take the ferry to a farming island and hang out for a weekend minbak-style in the summer

Check out some kind of art exhibit (check!)

Go to Everland and see the animal safari

Go to Caribbean Bay in the summer

Take a martial art for 6 months consecutively

Cliff dive over near ChiriSan, if I can find the spot

Practice yoga for 3 months (in a class maybe?) (check!)

Take a digital photography course

Spend my weekends doing stuff (check!)

Make Korean friends (check!)

Visit JeJu Island

Do the Vagina Monologues again

Go to the fun concerts that visit (check!)

Work as a counselor in one of the schools

Reconnect with old friends (check!)

Join a hiking/touring group and do stuff (check!)

Let go of my obsessiong w/converting KRW to CAD (check!)

Do a 5km run just for the fun of it

See the Broadway shows that visit

Climb a mountain (check!)

Go to the mud festival in July (check!)

Keep in touch regularly with friends and family back at home

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