113 days to go… We bought China tickets!
Monday, February 11th, 2008We bought our one-way tickets to Beijing, China. They were $604 a piece through Vayama.com. We fly out from San Francisco on September 7, and we arrive in China on September 8 at around 2 in the afternoon. We’ll have enough time to make our way to our hostel, get some food and maybe walk around and stretch our legs a little before going to bed and hopefully not suffering from jet lag too bad.
We’re leaving a little later than I would have ideally liked, but we wanted some cushion between the trip back from Peru (September 2) and flying out to China just in case flights were late or delayed, and also to see Steve’s family and friends (and to call my family and friends). But in order to get the cheaper tickets you could only fly on certain days, so we’ll be back in the states for 5 days visiting and resting and probably taking very long hot showers (and I predict uploading and organizing photos and possibly catching up on blog posts).
It’s both very exciting and a little scary to buy one way tickets to such a faraway place. But I think we’ll really like China, and if we don’t, we can just move on since we won’t have to worry about our onward plane/train tickets.
montarsig