Well, we’re in day two of the official planning process and I think my advice to anyone who would like to try this is to have someone hit you in the head with a tack hammer.  It’ll be much less painful.  We have loads of books some of which you can see in this picture. 

 

Unfortunately, the summer is about the worst time to travel anywhere in Asia according to the guides so we’re having difficulty trying to plan a route through Japan, China, Tibet, Nepal, India and Southeast Asia.  You don’t want to be in Beijing for the peak of summer because it’s smoking hot and crowded and you don’t want to be in Nepal because the monsoons come and make it impossible to get around – all mud and flooded rivers.  Combine that with a few predetermined destinations and dates (France in July for a wedding and Thailand in late May for Habitat for Humanity) and it makes my head hurt.  Good thing Krysten has always been a closet travel agent…