Back when we were putting together this whole trip, a few people were surprised our first stop would be Vietnam. We’re sure many people growing up in the 60s and 70s would never have dreamed of traveling to Hanoi, Saigon, or Phnom Penh. For us today, the cities of Central Asia possess that same forbidden draw—we desperately want to go to Kabul and Islamabad. But while we hope that someday we won’t think twice about packing our bags for Afghanistan or Pakistan, for now we will have to settle for getting tantalizingly close, just across the border in the Chinese province of Xinjiang.
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Well, today we have fallen four weeks and many thousand kilometers behind on our blogging responsibilities. Let’s pick up where we left off: Laos. After the beating we took from Cambodia, we were eager to leave that country and our anxieties behind. So as our plane swooped low over the Mekong and the city of Luang Prabang we forced ourselves to be cautiously optimistic about the next leg of our trip. We had our near death experience (apparently a must-have for any real traveler), now we could get down to the fun part of traveling.
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Well, we’re off to the races now. On Wednesday, August 26 we said goodbye to our students, packed up, and shipped out of Korea and on to Vietnam.
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It looks like our time in Korea is done (“Teacher, finish!” as our kids would say). We’ve spent nearly 365 days here and now it’s time for something new. We could be responsible and head home to start job hunting, grad school, and/or real life, but instead we are going to take our money and run. We are young and stupid and to be honest, we have never been under the delusion that we are going to live forever. So here’s what’s next:
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Okay, so we admit it. We have been less than stellar bloggers as of late. But you will just have to forgive us because, you see, we are on the home stretch of our time here in Korea. With less than two weeks left here we have been busy trip planning, packing up, saying our goodbyes to departing friends, and collecting all the necessary visas, vaccines, and malaria pills we may need for the next four months. We did, however, take a break from all the mad scrambling last week to cross the East Sea (or the Sea of Japan, depending on your perspective).
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