We are now down to a little less than 4 weeks until we leave, and it seems like the time is going quickly.  There is less than 15 school days left so the kids are counting that down also, and we are all trying to get loose ends tied up before we go.

We have confirmed Russill’s flight plans also, and he will be connecting with us in Tokyo at the start of the trip and joining us for about 3 weeks.

Now that we have some specific targets (we need to have Russill back to Bangkok for his flight home on July 15) we have started to rough out an agenda:

• A) Bangkok
• B) Phuket
• C) Krabi
• D) Koh Samui
• E) Bang Saphan
• F) Hua Hin
• G) Chiang Mai

We are still planning to ‘free flow’ our day to day agenda and likely will not commit to much more than 2-3 days of advance booking at a time but are roughly planning to be in Krabi or Koh Samui around about the time that Russill needs  to depart back to Canada.

All of our documents came back from the Thai Embassy, and we all have our 60 day tourist visas now, and we have started taking our immunization pills, so travel wise we are in good shape.

We still need to get our luggage plan figured out, and likely borrow a few backpacks or good travel bags, as our old luggage is looking a little tired, and would not really be the preferred bags for wandering around anyway.  I’m sure that like so many other things we will pick up stuff along the way, so don’t want to take too more from here than we have to.

Sadly it looks like the dollar is losing a bit to the Thai Bhat, so my 300 Bhat massage looks like it has gone up by about $0.30 or so.  On the flip side, the global tourism industry continues to weaken – I saw flights to Australia for about $300 each way this week – so perhaps my ability to haggle the 300BHT price tag down to 200BHT is getting better 🙂

All in all we are looking forward to a great adventure, and the excitement is starting to ramp up as the departure date gets closer.