On vacation, I'm off to Tibet!

So, as several people have pointed out. It's been a while. I have been lazy, but I have also been cursed by unbelievably slow internet as you can see from my January 1st entry that has finally been published.

I have been on vacation for nearly a week. It's been wonderful, but I am so ready to get off this campus, and tonight's the night!

Last week we bought tickets and permission (yes, you buy permission in China) to go to Tibet, and tonight we are finally leaving. We decided to take the train to Lhasa even though it would have cost about the same to fly and the train takes two days as opposed to 6 or so hours by plane. But, come on, it's a train. We thought it would be fun, at least one way, to be able to see the Chinese countryside.

We leave at 9:30 tonight and arrive at 9 p.m. on Saturday, which reminds me I still have to call about a reservation for a hostel! We'll stay there a couple of days, but then we're not really sure where we'll go from there. It sort of depends if Dan can handle the cold or if either of us gets mountain sickness or any number of other ailments. We could try to get over to Nepal or maybe just to a warmer part of China. It will be a surprise. Our train tickets are one way, so who knows how we'll be getting back here, but we have until the 18th to do it!

I will do my best to blog along the way, and I'm pretty sure I'll be able to. If I fail, you have the right to deny all knowledge of me. Either way, I promise to post a big one on the 18th, which is, consequently, the lunar new year so I will probably be making a resolution of some sort.

Wish me luck!