Wednesday, January 24, 2018

T2

The constant reminders from Facebook memories of our family year long trip to India and south east Asia from six years ago is killing us. To outdo ourselves and show us up, we have decided to do Trip 2. Approximately from summer of 2019 for a year. Evan won't just get Vivian's hand-me-down snow boots, but her 4th grade home schooling books too. Vivian will have to fend for herself and learn 7th grade - I hear not much happens in 7th grade anyway.

Using a mix of analog and digital media, we are beginning the democratic planing process. Everyone got to put stickies on a map saying where they wanted to go. Then Jo discarded all that information and made up a list of places she'd like to visit and when. That's nowhere near the final order - just a first list. I'll write a traveling salesman type program to optimize timing and distance traveled. Yeah.



June
Wk1: Track tigers in India
Wk2: Serengeti; west coast trail
Wk3: Namibia; sail in Turkey 
Wk4: rafting in Bovec, Slovenia

July
Wk1: Greenland; 
Wk2: cycle the Danube trail
Wk3: 
Wk4: 

August
Wk1: valley of Flowers, India
Wk2: Ladakh, India
Wk3: swim with humpback whales in Tonga
Wk4: hike Mt Olympus, Greece

September
Wk1: Bolivia, madidi 
Wk2: 
Wk3: Hokkaido, Japan; Indonesia, Komodo dragons
Wk4: Corsica, France; 

October
Wk1: Bhutan, snowman trek; sailing in Croatia
Wk2: Vietnam; kayak in Fiji
Wk3: New Caledonia, 
Wk4: Serengeti, hot air balloon wildebeest migration; hoerikwaggo trail, South Africa 

November
Wk1: Sinai, Egypt; camel safari in douz Tunisia 
Wk2: undersea walk, Mauritius
Wk3: KwaZulu Natal, South Africa; hike Simeon mountains, Ethiopia 
Wk4: Victoria falls, Zambia/Zimbabwe; sunderbans tiger reserve, India 

December
Wk1: Venezuela/Chile; 
Wk2: Antarctica; Madagascar lemur track
Wk3: Micronesia, manta ray season; Cambodia
Wk4: 

January
Wk1: New Year in New Zealand; gorilla tracking in Uganda
Wk2: Andaman coast, Thailand; 
Wk3:
Wk4: Patagonia

February 
Wk1: 
Wk2: Tasmania, Australia 
Wk3: South Georgia Island: climb my Kilimanjaro 
Wk4: 

March
Wk1: Montserrat; hatching turtles, Australia 
Wk2: Sabah, Malaysia; 
Wk3: aurora borealis; 
Wk4: Galápagos Islands, 

April
Wk1: 
Wk2: Darien Gap, panama; 
Wk3:
Wk4: Brazil

May
Wk1: Morocco
Wk2: Camino de Santiago 
Wk3: 
Wk4: Machu Pichu

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