Wednesday, February 25, 2009
safe and sound - by Darcy
We are here! After a long day of flights Paul, Tamara and I arrived safely in Bangkok with all our luggage. We had a good night in our fancy little hotel, and went slept through the night Thailand time, so we shouldn't be too jetlagged. Only one cockroach so far. Today we are off to find the Mongolian embassy to get our visa's. Sorry this is brief, but Thailand awaits! Yeah Thailand! (miss you Laura.)
Monday, February 23, 2009
Who is excited!?!?! By Darcy
Well, I am currently taking it easy at the Taerum household in Calgary, and all is well. Tamara is just finishing up her packing, and I'm all ready to go, so I thought it would be a good time to post.
This morning my parents were kind enough to take me to the Chinese consulate where I recieved my visa to enter China. The deadline to have your application in so that you could recieve it the same day was 11:00 AM and after an early morning and a good drive we were there at 10:15 with a medium sized line up. No problem right? Well the line moved slower than we thought and I was handing in my application literally the last minute (10:59). Anyway, it was no problem and 45 minutes later I am allowed to enter China!
So tommorrow Tamara and I (Thanks for the ride Larry!) leave to catch an 8:00 AM flight to Vancouver where we will meet up with Paul. Together we will then catch a noon flight to Tokyo for a brief layover, and arrive in Bangkok at about 10:45PM. (And I think it will be Wednesday?)
So that's it. Lot's of flying. I am quite excited. We are almost very literally on the other side of the planet. Does anyone know if the stars will look different? Or is that a north-south thing?
Thanks to everyone for all the goodbye's. I already miss you Laura.
This morning my parents were kind enough to take me to the Chinese consulate where I recieved my visa to enter China. The deadline to have your application in so that you could recieve it the same day was 11:00 AM and after an early morning and a good drive we were there at 10:15 with a medium sized line up. No problem right? Well the line moved slower than we thought and I was handing in my application literally the last minute (10:59). Anyway, it was no problem and 45 minutes later I am allowed to enter China!
So tommorrow Tamara and I (Thanks for the ride Larry!) leave to catch an 8:00 AM flight to Vancouver where we will meet up with Paul. Together we will then catch a noon flight to Tokyo for a brief layover, and arrive in Bangkok at about 10:45PM. (And I think it will be Wednesday?)
So that's it. Lot's of flying. I am quite excited. We are almost very literally on the other side of the planet. Does anyone know if the stars will look different? Or is that a north-south thing?
Thanks to everyone for all the goodbye's. I already miss you Laura.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
And so it begins! (Almost) By Tamara
Well, I guess this is our blog. Almost everything is ready, we have our visas despite much stress over getting our Russian visas on time, $300 and 3 weeks gets you one fine Russian Visa. For those who don't know Darcy, Paul and I (Tamara) leave on Tuesday the 24th forBangkok, while poor Wanda has to slave away at CLBI and WMPL for 2 more months. Well, since we are still here... I will cease writing.... keep checking in to hear all about our epic journey!
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