Once the plane ticket is booked...

Its the easiest and most expensive part of the trip: the plane ticket. But once it is done, the trip is actually happening and planning can continue!

I just reserved my flight to Nepal on September 7. I have to spend one night in Bangkok and then I will meet Denise and Dale in Kathmandu. I also just booked and paid for a weekend in North Korea. It sounds a little strange, a weekend in a communist nuclear weapon-wielding country with a tiny man for a boss. There is a tour group that runs the trip to a National Park in the Southeast corner of the country. I'm going with Romi and some of the people she works with. There is a long list of rules to abide by, such as the max length of a telephoto lens, the print material allowed (nothing basically), what we can't talk to the locals about (mostly about the economy, politics, the world) and on and on and on.

Last week was a big week: new camera, new runners, new haircut. I chopped 7 inches of my hair off. It was time for a change but I love it.