Forty-three hours til my plane leaves the tarmac. Still not 100% ready but with one final push-through this evening I should be good to go. Suffering from major sleep deprivation. Worked today on 3.5 hours of sleep. I wish I could say it was visions of sugar plums dancing in my head but unfortunately it was a list of things I forgot to write down on my packing list. Of course, between 1:00 AM and 4:30 AM I didn't get out of bed to actually write down any of thos...

Sawasadee everyone! (That's the ONLY Thai I know so far - it means "Hello"). Thought I should do a test run on my travel blog to see if it's all up and running properly. Honestly, this test run is really to see if I can figure out how to do a blog! It is my intention to keep a blog of my impending travels to Thailand and Japan. My memory isn't the greatest so if I get in the habit of posting every evening (WiFi permitting), then I should have a decent log o...