This was definitely the most fun part of the planning. We are being hosted by the College of Ecology and Evolution at Sun Yat-Sen University. Their generosity and helpfulness have been way beyond our expectations. They have secured us a spacious apartment walking distance to the university. They took it one step further and renovated the apartment and filled it with everything that we will need. Because of that, I haven’t needed to plan anything on that end. I haven’t even had to worry. Which again, if you know me, I worry. About everything.
So without having anything to worry, I naturally turned to my other favorite pastime – planning. Planning for all the fun trips we would take from China of course. I bought guidebooks, read travel review sites, followed travel blogs and put together a list of countries along with the most ideal months to visit.
So here it is folks, our tentative and ambitious travel itinerary for our year away from home:
September – China and Hong Kong
October – Vietnam
November – Burma (after much research we decided it was not ideal for us to visit this time around) Thailand
December – Cambodia (running the Angkor Wat half-marathon, woohoo!)
January – Japan
February – Laos
March – Malaysia and Indonesia
April – Borneo
May – Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan; followed by our departure from Asia to New Zealand
June – Australia
July – TBD
Spread in between these big trips will be smaller trips to explore other parts of China. Isn’t this list totally epic?
All The Pretty Places 
Goodness it sounds incredibly exciting! Can’t wait to read all about it.
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You are as ambitious as ever! I’m not sure how you will be able to return to normal life after all of this.
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