Leaving for a whole month....how does a person do that? We have gotten all our scuba gear together and checked. Check. We have Jake with his generous spirit care taking our home. Check. We have done reading about where we are going. You can never do enough. Sorta check. We have hotel reservations in Bali, Wakatobi and in Bangkok!!!!!!Check, Check, Check!We have wiggle room in our trip, where we don't know where we will be yet. We want to go to the Air Force Base where Walter Hoerler was base commander.

I can't believe the way the world works sometime because I remembered my friend "Pom", Prapaiparn Vattasingh, from St. Margaret's School class of '70, emailed her and she immediately emails me back! She happens to be in Bangkok visiting her mother and HOPEFULLY we will reconnect in Bangkok.

I write today with a sense that I will look back on how I felt before I journeyed and it will be like a vague dream. It will be fun to see how I have changed, how it will be nothing like I imagine, but more.