January 21, 2007

I'm a travelling fool!

Here's the spring vacation travel itinerary for all of my relatives, friends, and internet stalkers out there:
January 22-27 The lovely mountains of Chengde (noted for their beauty and extreme COLDNESS)
February 2 - Train from Shijiazhuang to Guangzhou (A mere 20 hours! If only I had some Ambien... )
Feb. 3-4 - Making our way from Guangzhou to Shenzhen, then to Macau! (This is an island in the south of China, which I am hoping will be absolutely infested with those Macau birds. However, being somewhat underdeveloped in the "international know-how" department, this island may have absolutely nothing to do with those giant, fierce birds. ~5 minutes later~ I just checked Google...I was thinking of Macaws...Or Toucans... It's like you can just hear the wheels in my head turning slowly, very slowly.)
Feb. 4 - Air Asia flight from Macau to Bangkok (Macau's currency is the MOP, which stands for Macau Osomething Pataca...Whatever this "pataca" is - it sounds delicious and I'll have two)
Feb. 4-6ish - Bumming around Bangkok and trying not to get blatantly cheated out of our hard earned money.
Feb ish-18ish - Wandering around Central Thailand in search of: picture perfect beaches, legendary "Lady Men,'" and a gorgeous, flesh charring, tan. At this point in time, I feel it absolutely necessary to quote my father: "Most people don't realize it, but a tan is actually just the appearance of dead DNA in your skin, having been fried by UV Rays." I may have paraphrased.
Feb. 19 - Air Asia flight from Bangkok back to Macau.
Feb. 20th... - Who knows!!! From that point on we'll: slowly work our way back up from Macau, maybe stop by Hong Kong, most likely spend a lot of money, definitely spend all too much time on the absolutely terrible Chinese train system, and get schnockered.
Sometime in March - Returning to teaching. Cough Cough. English Corner will resume in March. Huzzah!

Now you must ask yourself... "Why did Hilary really divulge, in intricate detail, all of her travel plans?" And I shall answer your query. I shared this with you for the soul purpose of making you jealous of my 3 weeks of tropical island hopping madness! No thanks are necessary, it was a pleasure.

1 comment:

KenM said...

Gimme a call when you get back to China. I think I'll have left Hong Kong by then, but you never know.