Plane Tickets!

Today marked the first ticket purchase for our trip, and subsequently made me $1000 poorer (Kane, you owe me $500...I'll put it on your tab). So now it's final, we're going to Thailand! I suppose it will be final when we board that flight, but let's start with baby steps. Expensive baby steps.

We still need to buy our Oakland to Honolulu tickets, but those seem to keep getting cheaper, so we're trying to wait it out for maximum cheapitude - one of the themes of this trip. I bought our Honolulu to Bangkok tickets for November 15th: One stop (Taiwan), 16.5 hours, Ambien sleeping pills. I can't wait!

Getting Ready

Well, we are getting dates planned, shopping around for flights, and steadily supporting REI with our extensive and perhaps ridiculous purchases. Our planned departure date is currently November 13, 2007. We will fly to Hawaii (to break up the flight), then to Thailand (30 days), then to Sydney, tour Aus (unknown days), fly to New Zealand (unknown days), and then back to Aus to find a home and a job for a year or so. We have a lot of work to do before then.

As a note to all friendly bay area dwellers, I will be in and out of the bay for October until we leave, so please contact me to hang out before I go. I will let everyone know about our going away party, tentatively planned for Nov 10.