We are in day 2 of our 5 week trip.
\nWe purchased all the flights back in January.<\/p>\n
Cairo->Bangkok
\nBangkok->Chiang Mai
\nChiang Mai -> Hanoi (via Bangkok)
\nSiem Reap->Kuala Lumpur
\nKuala Lumpur->Manila
\nManila->Seattle (via Honolulu)<\/p>\n
We are gonna take 3 weeks to get from Hanoi to Siem Reap via ground transports<\/p>\n
We made hotel reservations in every city that we fly into,since those are “hard” dates.<\/p>\n
Every other date is soft: we aren’t sure when we will arrive, so we will make reservations a couple of days in advance after we our schedule firms up.<\/p>\n
So this afternoon, we are in Bangkok. We leave tomorrow for Chiang Mai.
\nI was perusing our hotel reservations for Chiang Mai.<\/p>\n
I noticed I have a pre-paid, non-refundable room for July 28 for 3 nights via www.agoda.com.<\/a><\/p>\n If you notice the date on this post you will notice that tomorrow (relative to the day this post was written) is not July 28th, but JUNE <\/strong><\/em>28th.<\/p>\n My darling wife was sitting across the table from me when I gasped and said Kaddee had just been saying that our hotel, Raming Lodge Hotel<\/a>, looked like a gorgeous place, with a spa and how she was going to get a massage and maybe a pedicure while we were there.<\/p>\n It took a minute before I could summon the courage to tell her<\/p>\n Uh, honey.. we may not have a room.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I explained that I had obviously been suffering from teh dumb the day I made the reservation.<\/p>\n
\n“Oh you are fucking kidding me”.<\/p>\n