26 Days

That's all we've got here before we split. Stuart mentioned how last time it was so much longer before departure that we actually celebrated our "100 days before we leave" day. This time we won't have to wait even half that long.

Things are progressing nicely, though. I bought tickets to Vietnam (fly out June 11). Then tickets from Hanoi to Bangkok (fly out September 20). I'll buy tickets home while I am there. I finished some updates on the Vietnam With Kids website and plan to do more over the next couple of weeks. I finally arranged all the paperwork, photos, and signatures for our visas and will mail those out tomorrow. That's the only real stumbling block, but we'll keep our fingers crossed that everything works out right (and quickly!).

We're gathering things together to take back to the orphans in Tam Ky (as well as a couple other people living in VN) and selling off a little bit of our stuff, packing away other stuff and just progressing nicely.

Now if I could just fit in more time to work on the travel memoir for our last trip, I'd be super happy.