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13 and a WU Here is the short list of the countries we plan to visit on this trip, and a very general time table. We welcome anyone and everyone to join us along the way. AFRICA (March 3rd - May 3rd) Tanzania Malawi Zambia Mozambique Zimbabwe Botswana Swaziland Lesotho South Africa Also, if we can fit them in: Rwanda, Namibia, Madagascar, Mauritius SOUTHERN ASIA (May 4th - July 31st) Nepal Bhutan Tibet India Bangladesh If we have time, and are staying on budget, we may try to make it up to Mongolia for the Naadam Summer Festival in July, which would include travel through China. SOUTHEAST ASIA (August 1st - December 8th...ish) Thailand Laos Cambodia Vietnam Malaysia Indonesia Brunei Philippines East Timor We're still debating a short trip to Myanmar (Burma); weighing politics against novelty. We'll probably decide when we get down there. * * * We have set out a healthy budget for this trip, but in no way plan to make that an excuse for luxury. We'll rough it as ...

15 and a WU. For those non-sailors among you, "WU" (pronounced "woo") stands for wake-up, and in 15 days and one wake-up, Tatyana and I will be trading in our suits for cargo pants.   As I write this, we have sold or stored most all of our furniture; Tatyana is presently snuggled up across a pair of deck chairs, sipping the last of the rum and wondering out loud how we can possibly distill our lives to an envelope of forwarding instructions.  But, with each passing day our apartment echoes a little bit louder, and the stack of boxes gets a little bit taller.  And on March 3rd, distilled or not, we're checking out. We've always talked about doing this, but always in vague terms and never anytime soon.  Then last Fall we had "the talk" -the one where Tatyana finally pins me down to a timeline on making babies, and--to both of our surprise--I don't freak out.   But, one great adventure at a time, and there is no way either one of us is going to co...