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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Airplane Tickets purchased for abroad part two!

holy crap we just bought a lot of plane tickets!!

Today we booked all our tickets for our second trip abroad. It's going to be a ridiculously good time.
For starters we leave our van with my mom out in Ohio and head to New York City to visit brothers and enjoy the Big Apple. We fly out of JFK on April 11th to go to Bangkok, Thailand arriving there on April 12. We'll spend almost two months in southeast Asia. Right now the plan is to climb in Thailand, and do some exploration in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
On June 2nd, we catch a flight to Cape Town, South Africa for a two month bouldering trip to the world famous Rocklands!
Then, on August 2nd we leave Africa for two days of travel to get to Australia. Matthew always talks about how he hates how quickly you arrive places with plane travel not getting a sense of how far you've really traveled. This 42 hour adventure may change his mind. We will spend two months in Australia to sport climb, boulder and maybe even do some trad :)
October 2nd we head to New Zealand for two months  of bouldering at Castle Hill, a renowned limestone area.
Finally, we fly back to Thailand on Dec 2nd for 2 weeks of rest and relaxation before flying back to New York on December 18th. We'll probably spend a couple of days in the city before heading back to Ohio to spend Christmas with my family.

hopefully we didn't screw up any of our dates and don't accidentally book our trip for longer than our visas allow.

Phewww, this is going to be nuts!

PS here's the summary

Leave the USA for Thailand and Southeast Asia!!! 1.75 months
New York - Bangkok, Thailand - April 11th

Rocklands Africa!!! 2 months
Bangkok, Thailand - Cape Town, South Africa - June 2nd

Australia!!! 2 months
Cape Town, South Africa - Melbourne, Australia August 2nd

New Zealand!!! 2 months
Melbourne, Australia - Auckland, New Zealand October 2nd

Thailand!!! 2 weeks
Auckland, New Zealand - Bangkok, Thailand December 2nd

HOME!!!! 
Bangkok, Thailand - New York City December 18th






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