Leaving San Francisco

Good byes said, bags packed and repacked, amazing amounts of 'stuff' thrown away, dispersed or stored... we are READY!

We had a lovely last couple of weeks, catching up with friends and trying to spend a few last moments with you amazing people in our lives. My school's family and staff was amazingly supportive of this trip and it is thanks to the month or so of conversations about our plans that I have been feeling so ready in my mind to start this adventure. For Cash, it is really this weekend that he realizes just how soon and how real the trip is becoming. Running a business takes a lot of energy and it is now, winding down and taking care of things to go that he has realized that he will actually be resting soon....

Our plane leaves in the morning just before noon from SFO, going through Tokyo on a 4hr stop and arriving in Bangkok on July 1st near midnight! There is a 14 hr time difference, ahead of CA.

The next post will be from Thailand!!!!!

The Plan

Three weeks before our Journey continues, Cash and I find ourselves wrapping up our jobs in the city and releasing our attachments to our 'stuff'. Suddenly, this adventure that we are about to take looks REAL and is feeling REAL too!

Here is the plan:

Early July, we arrive in Thailand and have 10 days to wander and find our ways to Chiang Mai before our first massage course in the Lahu village through the Sunshine Network!

We will stay three months in Thailand (possibly less if we can volunteer ourselves in Burma!)

Then we make our way North to China, visiting the Great Wall, Dali and Kunming in the Yunnan.

After two months in China, we plan to stay one month in Nepal, and are looking at a month long Thai Massage course there as well, through 'Healing Hands'.

The last three (or more? hehe) months, we plan to be in India, visiting and staying at an as-yet-undecided Ashram. We also hope to volunteer for the Sri Aurobindo school, or another school for children.

There is talk of Bali in the winter and some chance encounters with some city friends, Cash's parents and my parents. 

We don't want our travel too set in stone because you never know what will happen when you leave your own back yard and we want to stay open to all the beautiful experiences that the Universe is putting in front of us!

A bientot,

Mira