Aimee’s World Tour

March is generally  MOST DEPRESSING. 

In order to endure the never-ending cold, the long winter days, people dig deep.   As avid fans of St. Patty’s, a lot of us aren’t even Irish! Sure people like green beer but let’s face it… it’s something in the midst of nothing.  Well, unless spring training gets you in a tizzy. And so I embrace the holiday as any true Irish lass even though I’ve not a drop of the green in me.   

This time round, March is going to be different.  This St. Patty’s is to be clover-free.  I’m aiming to have reached Xi’an, China, the site of the Terrocata Warriors discovered in 1974.  Ah but i’m getting ahead of myself. 

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Let’s do this step by step.

My contract, expiring on Feb. 28th, isn’t actually my last day of work.  “Graduation” is on Thursday the 25th, followed by an-inservice day on the 26th to prep for the following school year.  School years in Asia start in March and end in Feb.  Since I’m not needed to prep I’ll simply be going in to collect me monies!  The 27th will be a triple good-bye bash for the ladies actually LEAVING both the school AND Korea – Justine, Laura and myself.  You are all invited though I’m sure traffic will prevent you from attending… We understand.  😉

I’m out of my apt. on the 28th – my lovely, studio-loft apt. for which I only pay maintenance/utilities.  Almost makes me want to stay put. 

I’ll be leaving early around 9 am in order to catch a flight to Beijing along with Justine Teacher.  Well by then we’ll just be Aimee and Justine.  With one night and most of the following day in Beijing we won’t get to see much.  Frankly we’ll probably just be scoping out the silk market for BARGAIN WARM GEAR!!  Our train To Tibet leaves that night. 

Approximately two days on the tracks, we will have aclimatized quite a bit from Beijing to Lhasa.  Lhasa is the capital city of Tibet and the site where we will meet up with our small Tibeten tour group of 8 for an 8-day adventure! 

We will return to Lhasa on the 10th of March and take a train back to Beijing.  Yes. a little backtracking but there are some MUST-SEES like The Great Wall, Tiennaman Square, The Forbidden City… I’ve been fiddling around with dates and destinations.

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From Beijing we plan to work our way south to Xi’an where we’ll probaby stay a day or two. 

Then we’ll head to Chendgu/Sichuan to explore Mt. Emei. There are several monasteries where you are welcome to spend the night.  And apparently some little monkeys.

After Emei I believe we’ll have to bus it to Yangshuo to explore some amazing rock formations and the like. 

Justine will continue further south to Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Singapore.

I will board a plane in Hong Kong and fly back to Incheon, Korea.

Once back I hope to spend a week soaking up the sights I’ve managed to ignore for the past year.

At least these are our current aspirations.  Only our Tibet tour dates are set in stone, Everest base camp on March 7th!!!!!!

Then at long last I will obtain my paid ticket back to Newark, NJ, where the real adventure awaits.   

~Aimee

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