What goes in the pack?

To continue my post on what you pack for a round the world trip....

Flights All Booked

Finally, every single flight is booked. 38 flights in total will get you around the world visiting 5 continents.

Visa Drama

Man, I am hell annoyed. I paid a visa service to handle my Chinese visa and filled out all their forms. Well turns out the Chinese Gov will only issue a visa for 3 months from the date of issue, so I have a visa that gets me into China thru September, but I am only going in October. Not a lot of use to me. Would have been nice for the service to tell me that before they took my money and gave it to the Chinese. URGGGG!!!

The good news is Danielle got here Visa no problem. I guess they don't like the British and all. I am going to take a breath, apply for the Vietnam Visas and then rethink the approach to China.

Japan... I can't wait!

Ok, planning of our visit to Japan is frankly kind of intimidating. So many cool things to see and do, but not the most intuitive country to find your way around. But finally we have done the leg work, and its going to be awesome... can you say bullet trains! And we are going to visit on Onsen... check this place out

http://www.takaragawa.com/english.html

How awesome is that?

Blog Ready

OK, so the blog is ready for prime time.... I have got it integrated into flickr, youtube, and facebook. My next post will be trip related I promise.