Day -14:
Yellowstone National Park, August 2005.
It’s getting down to the wire and my toes are wiggling. I wake up every morning expecting I will be somewhere else. It has been kind of crazy lately, all of my friends want to go out and individually celebrate my leaving, so needless to say I have maintained a buzz for about 5 days strait.
Yesterday I moved out of my house which I lived in for the last two years and moved all my things into a closet at my moms house.
Only two weeks left.
For those of you interested I wrote up a general budget for the first year of my trip. I hope to spend about US$18000.
Switzerland/Italy 21 Days @ $70/Day $1470
Eastern Europe 90 Days @ $40/Day $3600
Eastern Africa 60 Days @ $30/Day +$700 for Excursions $3200
India 30 Days @ $30/Day $900
S.E. Asia 75 Days @ $25/Day $1875
Philippines 30 Days @ $40/Day $1200
(I added more than I thought I’d need for the Philippines because I am staying with Joanna 
for a while and she really enjoys partying and living it up 
)
Austrailia/N.Z. 60 Days @ $50/Day $3000
This leaves me about $3500 for plane tickets from Europe to Africa, From Africa to India, Short hops around SE Asia, SE Asia to Austraila/NZ, and a Ticket back to California. I have already bought my one way to Switzerland and am not including that in the $18000.
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Gotta love those analyticals!
Hey Rob!
I am sorry, but I don’t think I am going to make it to your going away bashes. I wish I could, but I have 4 papers to write this week. I am in my last class of my masters. I will see what I can do though.
Hey, when are you heading to the Phillipines? What areas? I have a friend who was in the peace corp and is still out there. She ended up meeting and marrying another peace corp volunteer at another location. He still has some time left so they are both out there still.
Maybe I can hook you all up if you will be in the same area. They are major partiers. I met Cindy up at Chico State. That right there tells you how big a partier she is…plus she taught me everything I know…and I still have so much to learn from her.
Let me know if you are interested.
Have a blast…be safe,
Michelle
hey do you know joanna’s email??