Post date: 29-Mar-2009 16:12:51
Less than 4 months until we leave; time is dripping away like a leaky eaves trough.
We have a couple places without accommodation still. The second week in Greece (Athens) is unknown. As is Germany right now, but we're following up on a lead. Russia has pretty much been decided for us, since we have to show that we're staying in a hotel in order to get a visitor's visa. Thailand is also unknown, but we do have lots of time before we need to worry about that. Same with Manila...who knows where we'll stay there. And El Nido hasn't been booked yet...for no real good reason, just haven't gotten around to it, I guess.
We've enlisted the help of AMA to book our Trans-Siberian train trip - just to make sure we have all of the entry requirements covered for getting into China. There's a few unique aspects, such as registering with the Russian embasy before you leave, otherwise you'll be turned away on China...sounds like fun. This second attempt with a travel agent look more promising than the first...she knows her stuff and admits when she doesn't. We're getting her to quote us a price for the "around the world tickets" again....they might be cheaper. But, from what I can see on travelocity and expedia, we're looking at about $4500 each for all of our flights.
Sandy and Marc might just happen to be in Italy around the same time that we are. They want to check out Venice on the island. If it happens that we're in the same place at the same time, we might just hook up with them and hang out...we'll see.
That's all for now.