JFK
We are about to begin what will be our last big backpacking adventure… our “last hurrah”. Strangely I do remember us saying the same thing about our Africa trip. We are in a different position now; we may finish this trip to go straight to employment or Peace Corps. As always, there is a great element of uncertainty and I’ve long ago stopped trying to predict where we will be in the next few months. Even this trip started out with the idea of riding our bicycles from Florida to California. After researching the cost of that trip and realizing how it expensive it would be we realized we could buy a clunker in London and drive to Mongolia for the same cost. Since everything happened with the State Department, we stayed in the States a bit longer than expected so that was scrapped and now our plan is to just do Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China in the next four months, which seems a grueling pace also.
I don’t feel excited at this point. I am still cautious as a lot can change and quickly. Even now as we sit at the airport, we learned that our flight is delayed about two hours. Normally that wouldn’t be a big deal but we only have a few hours in Moscow and we are really hoping to see the city. We should have enough time to at least see the Kremlin. Hopefully things will work out and we didn’t pay for that costly visa for nothing.
