Where are you going?

Meg and I are taking off to walk the world for a year. She's gonna do doctor stuff, I'm gonna build some houses, but mostly we're just gonna see beautiful things for awhile.

For anyone out there fixin' to meet us, stalk us, abduct us, or avoid us - here's the plan

Jan. 3, 5pm-------Finish last day at work

Jan. 3, 11:59 pm--Board plane at San Francisco airport

Jan. 5-------------Find a beach in Bali to sleep on, preferably attached to life raft in case hundred-foot waves come crashing down upon us

Jan. 12-----------One Night in Bangkok

Jan. 14-----------Explore Mumbai with Rahul's family

Jan. 18-----------24-hour train-ride to more family in Bangalore

Jan. 23-----------Head north to Rajasthan to ride camels with Leela and Sam

Feb. 5------------Meg starts a monthlong medical rotation in the rural Indian Himalaya while I get all vernacular on Indian houses

March 5----------Travelling for two weeks in Punjab and other part of the Indian Himalaya

March 20---------Meeting the fabulous Courtney Schroeder in Delhi for our last 2 weeks in India

April 4------------Dropping Courtney off for her flight home and heading up to Nepal (Maoists willing)

April 16/17------ NEPALI MS150!!!

April 19-May 3---Trekking somewhere near Everest

May 6-8----------Heading on tiger safari with Rahul's family

May 10-24-------Tibet

May 26 ----------Catching a flight to Turkey (with an overnight stop in Bahrain)

May 27-June 13--Romping through Turkey (including a week with Amy Dickie!)

June 14-20-------Kickin' it with Meg's family on the Amalfi coast

June 21-30-------Rockin' Egypt with Meg's brothers

July 1-23----------Meg plays doctor in Eritrea

July 12-23--------Meanwhile, Rahul splits off to meet his college buddy Zanja in Ethiopia

July 23-------------We all reunite in Nairobi

July 30-Aug 14--We meet Ali Mac and her lover Simon in Zanzibar and spend two weeks hitting the beach and going on safari

Aug 15-26---------We climb Kilimanjaro and make our way back to Nairobi

August 27--------Massive-ass karaoke rager in New York City (Highly recommended meeting point for all our friends not meeting us in other locations)

Labor Day -------Rahul performs wedding in eastern Oregon (thank you Universal Life Church and your online ordination!) accompanied by the Yahoo! yodeler providing musical entertainment

September 7-October 10--------Oaxaca, Mexico

October 10-early November- Dec.--- -Chiapas, Guatemala, and an imaginary trip to Cuba. Also, Rahul turns 30!

November 7-November 30--Meg practices her medical spanish on unsuspecting patients in Santa Lucia, Honduras

December--Meg heads back to America whenever residency programs beckon her for interviews; Rahul makes his way north, eventually walking across the border into Texas sometime before Christmas.

See y'all there!