Thursday, March 19, 2015

Let the Travels Begin??? Yes!!


Well, I am on my way...well, not so much on my way yet, but will be leaving soon, if the airplane I am supposed to be on from Omaha to Denver ever arrives.  I guess this gives me more time to watch basketball in the airport, but although I really like basketball, especially at this time of year, I'd really rather be traveling to Denver right now.

Hopefully soon...and then it will be a race to see if this flight can arrive in Denver prior to my flight to San Francisco leaving and if so, can I get from gate-to-gate fast enough to catch it?  Again...we'll see???

So, given the least-ideal scenario ~ which I was going to call the 'worst-case scenario' and that seemed way too dramatic ~ I'll arrive in San Francisco tomorrow morning where Amy will be awaiting my arrival.  She and I then like to spend a day strolling throughout San Francisco ~ walking, walking, walking to basically tire ourselves out and this year I am excited to see how many steps I will take on my FitBit.  I wonder if it will keep track of how many hills we climb too? 

This will be the first trip in quite some time where I will not get to see Meredith ~ my niece ~ while in San Francisco.  Why, you ask?  It's because she's no longer in college and is now living in Pohnpei, Micronesia, while she volunteers with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, but will be returning to the US in about 2 1/2 months!  Yay.  We Skype-chatted (is that really a word) this morning before I left for work and she said she would be in 'solidarity' with me during my travels to Vietnam as I will be dealing with the same high level of humidity that she has been living with for nearly 2 years.  She is my humidity-sister (aka niece).  Here's a lovely picture of her (with her brother, Trevor, and Tristan and Elise, my other nephew and niece)...just in case you didn't know what she looked like.  Side note ~ my niece, Elise, (on the right) is now officially taller than me and I am sure Tristan (in front of Trevor) will pass me up soon.  I will have to keep wearing heels when I can to keep up!


So, both Amy and I will brave the 'wilds' of San Francisco ourselves and will explore ourselves silly, as usual.  Usually a trip to Walgreens is also necessary to gather the items that we both invariably forget.  Thank goodness for Walgreens.  (no, I am not a paid sponsor)

Well, we gather with the whole of the International Extremity Project (IEP, but not the IEP all of us pediatric therapists and educators are used to) at the San Francisco International airport Friday night at about 9p or so and then we will leave around midnight for the marathon travel to the lovely country of Vietnam, with a stopover in Taipei, Taiwan.  I have reading materials of all sorts, music, headphones, etc., so I should be prepared.  I will post again once we arrive in Can Tho, Vietnam (Amy's and my first stop of the trip with the group), which will be on Sunday afternoon/evening (add 12-13 hours from wherever you reside to get the approximate time where I will be residing for the next 9-10 days).

This has been the view from our hotel room at the Golf Hotel (no golf though) in Can Tho each and every time I have gone to Can Tho, Vietnam, so enjoy the view and if it changes, I'll let you know.



Thanks for reading...getting so excited for another adventure!

xoxo
Stacy














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