AirTreks received my payment today for the first half of my flights, and the tickets are in the works. I should have them in a couple of weeks. I was only able to book the first half now, as airline ticket inventory only goes so far into the future. The other half I'll book on the way. Perhaps by the halfway point my itinerary will be completely different, and I'll just go where the wind takes me. Only time will tell.

Meanwhile, my application for extra pages to my passport's visa section is on its way out. And the good folks at BootsnAll have posted my RTW profile, complete with a pretty cool portrait my brother Mark shot for me:

http://www.BootsnAll.com/rtw/profile/etrinidad.shtml

I'm pretty shocked when reviewing the profiles of the other RTWers. A lot of them are skipping out on Africa and just doing the SE Asia/Oz/NZ thing. My first trip to Africa is what infected me with the Travel Bug in the first place! Oh well, their loss...