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How do you eat an elephant?

One bite at a time.
Right now, it seems our bites are getting bigger and we might be in danger of suffering from indigestion if we don’t slow down 😉
Here are the trip preparations we have made in just the last three days:

booked: accommodation for the part of the trip with friends (four different hostels/guesthouses)

found: Phnom Penh to Bangkok flights for friends (three different options)

enquired: whether said friends are allowed to carry our passports back to NZ
(now need to ask Thai and Cambodian embassies what their legal requirements are)

jabbed: final rabies vaccinations for most of us, plus some typhoid and polio

knit: three neck warmers

sewed: last pair of pants

sent: details to uncle in Malaysia who is purchasing international train tickets for us and details for guest houses that don’t have internet booking so friendly uncle can ring them

rearranged: Malaysian “itinerary” (our plans are really too loose for this word to hold much meaning)

discovered: one guesthouse we were trying (thankfully unsuccessfully) to book into is next door to a disco that is loud until 4am and that the “dormitory” in this place is just five beds on an open landing….we’re looking for somewhere else

received: a wonderful gift box of things to keep the children busy (cards and activity books and journals and stickers etc) from surrogate grandparents

learnt: card game to while away the time (this game will always be remembered as the one taught to us by those same “grandparents” – we’ll think of you whenever we play)

brainwaved: that the friends who are meeting us in Thailand might be able to bring a backpack of our winter gear that we will not need any earlier

signed up: with travelfish…seems you have to sign up to so many different sites to get access to information

discussed: with Ponheary the possibility of sponsoring an outing for some school children

read: half a dozen chapters out loud of Angel on the Square by Goloria Whelan (highly recommended)

emailed: a friend’s brother in Germany, who might be able to help us purchase campervans in the (northern hemisphere) spring

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One response to “How do you eat an elephant?”

  1. jen says:

    hope you get everything done done
    not long to go
    excited???

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