SE Asia in February 2016

While The Road Trip is still on the table, thinking about and planning for a trip to SE Asia has taken over as my default mode for being.
Out of the blue, Ann proposed that we go to Thailand next winter and mentioned a yoga & meditation retreat in Cambodia.  At first I was (hugely) hesitant ... bedbugs, dirt, depression ... but am now totally stoked.  I'm so glad it's a year away as I have a lot of things to put into place before I leave:

• memorial bench for Mom
• sell apartment on Charles Street
• store stuff
• remove all expenses not associated with travel
• save enough money for flights and emergencies
• get as strong and fit as possible
• find someone to care for the dogs

The trip, for me, will be on a one-way ticket, entirely open-ended, which I hope will include:

• yoga/pilates/exercise & meditation retreats
• trekking in the Himalayas
• surfing
• Tibet
• taking the Trans Siberian train across Russia
• lots of beach time

With retirement in June and this trip on the horizon, I feel like I'm graduating university; I'm going to bum around and do interesting things until I find something I want to commit to "for the rest of my life", something to do "when I grow up".  My only other idea on the horizon is to take liberal arts classes at university.