Marcia and I are in the midst of planning our wedding. It’s been a total nightmare. Neither of us are in to big weddings, but at the behest of my family, we tried to plan a March 1st wedding extravaganza, but luckily we had extreme troubles getting enough options for people to rent houses, hotels etc… We live in a very touristy area; the houses have all been rented out already and the hotels booked up with package tours, not to mention $500 plane tickets. It was becoming a logistical nightmare. So we decided to cut the wedding size down and have a small intimate affair, here in Bucerias, with just our immediate families and local friends (with a small shindig in LA for the LA peeps). We moved the date up to December 1st (our anniversary - it’ll be two years). Which is six weeks away! we’re crazy. Marcia has been spearheading the wedding planning part with my input of course. If all goes well, in six weeks I’ll be a mexican citizen and we’ll be properly hitched!
We’re also planning our honeymoon, a two month trip to South East Asia and India. I’ve just begun to plan the trip. And I am in waaaaay over my head. 2 months to hit Bali, Lombok, Thailand (bangkok, chaing rai, kho phi phi), Cambodia, Vietnam, India (veranasi, darjeeling) and Nepal. It’s gonna be a whirlwind trip. I’ve been casing the Lonely Planet Thorn Tree Forums, as well as AirTreks.com, which has a cool little flash graphical trip planner tool (although I don’t like the sales tools stuck on to it, feels like Cars Direct or something, if anyone knows any other graphical trip planning sites, feel free to drop it in the comments). I’ve also been digging Flickr for photos of various places.
I had planned on getting an all-asia pass from Carthay Pacific, but that turned out to be a dud, since their deal ends Dec.13th. I also checked out United, One World, Star Alliance, etc.. and all sorta suck, one way or the other, mostly due to their lack of flexibility. But it seems like they’re for older, more inflexible travelers anyway. Eventually, I learned that getting around SE Asia is pretty easy with the help of several small airlines like Air Asia and Thai Airways. Also, conveniently, I have enough miles on my AAdvantage Card to get Marcia and I from LA to Bali and then from Calcutta to LA in business class, for free. Chalk that one up to the old days of buying computer equipment for mostasa. Yee haw!
If anyone has any insightful info on planning a trip of this sort, please do drop the knowledge on me, hot. I’ll probably update this entry from time to time with new info as I get it. Interested peoples can also check my backpack page I’m forming all this info on.
oh my GOD!!
december first?
small intimate wedding?
we gotta talk. there is NO WAY i am missing your wedding.
mel