Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve updated, about two months. Where to begin.
I’m currently writing this post sitting on the plane en route to Auckland, New Zealand, and will hopefully upload it soon after landing. Rory is sound asleep next to me, the boy can sleep through anything, including the sound of the woman behind us sneezing violently every fifteen minutes or so.
We went from touring Italy to trekking through the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Ukraine and Poland. We flew down to Greece for about a week to relax. The visit was unfortunately anything but relaxing, and after the week was over we hopped on another plane and went to Thailand. While there, he ran into an old friend of the family studying there, who helped us attain entry into Bhutan.
We then went to South Korea, then Japan. I could easily move to either if I could learn the language. I loved everything, from the food to the fashions to the people who commented on my eyelashes.
Throughout Europe, we were mostly spectators and tourists. In Thailand, we picked up part time jobs as fact checkers and copiers for his friend’s employer. We got to spend hours studying translation guides, practicing phrases and trying to carry conversations with the locals. We continued this in South Korea and Japan, starting by talking with shop owners wherever we went. We were invited to parties, learned how to paint fish, spent time learning new trades, tried almost every kind of sushi and bought incredibly hilarious/cute/weird things. I already want to go back.
I thought I would write more, but I’ve been getting increasingly sleepy, and I’ll try to find more time after we land and get settled. I will say this, though. There have been many surprises along the way, and almost nothing happened as we planned it. We have had several brushes with danger, lost our passports, had to replace a laptop and I now have a left shoe without a right one. There’s still a part of me in the back of my mind that is on a constant adrenaline rush, full of terror and excitement.
-posted from the hotel, after remembering I had written this. We’ve been in Auckland for a little over a week.-







