Preparations

Here we are, we are finally at the point of no return. After months of seemingly endless admin, last minute changes and some mad saving of the much needed spondulas, we are about to leave on our next big adventure. Those of you that know us well know that this has been in the making for some years. Those of you that know us really well, know also that we have paid off doing much of the finer detail planning until the last possible minute - hence our rather rushed visit to the Royal Thai Consulate three days before we leave to get our visas. A small oversight - no doubt one of many to come.
Our first official leg is the flight to Thailand.

Really, we are pretty we ready, that is, when we have finalised and paid for our Trans Siberian travels through Tatiana the Russian Travel Agent, gotten our Cambodia and Vietnam Visas, arranged a bike hire one way from Saigon to Hanoi (and arranged our gear to be delivered to meet up with us there), picked up our tickets and travel vouchers from an as yet undisclosed location in Beijing. As I said we are pretty well ready.