OK, I’ve pretty much ruled out my Damascus trip. My rationale is that I can fly there from here cheaply whenever I want so why use up my sky miles on it, and I don’t really want to be in an Arab country for Ramadan. Yes yes, I know, it’s a unique experience etc etc. I will get a taste of it here, but honestly I really can’t see myself getting into it. The upshot is that I want a taste of it, but at the same time keep my exposure to a minimum. <\/p>\n
So, I looked at the possible destinations that Emirates is offering for half of the usual miles and I narrowed it down to a handful. The free flight is the key to this conundrum, without it, I don’t do any of these things. The others were just too expensive and\/or uninteresting. My first options are in India, all of them in the southern areas. That has a lot of appeal, but I was really hoping to see the northern parts first. It’s also the start of the fall monsoon season. There should only be light rains, but there’s something about the word monsoon that makes me think again. Still, it would be cheap, the areas along the Indian ocean look beautiful, and the food should be tasty (if a little dangerous, food poisoning isn’t uncommon there). <\/p>\n
I noticed that the Seychelles was offered as well. I’m not really a beach person, but that place looks stunning. It would be more expensive than India (what isn’t) but still doable if I stayed in a flea bag hotel. The only real problem I have is that it seems like a place I should take someone to. Even if I had someone to take there, I couldn’t afford right now…<\/p>\n
The third one might be the most expensive, and it certainly involves the most time and travel. I could go back to Beijing for free. I wouldn’t stay there though. i would go to the same hotel I stayed in last time, the one right around the corner from the railroad station. From there I would take a two day train ride up to Tibet! How amazing would that be? Of course it would be two days back, that makes 4 days total on the train, ugg. I guess I would see a lot of China that way… I could then take a tour once I got there. I don’t have to say anything about the scenery, but I’d also love to see all the monasteries and whatnot as well.<\/p>\n
The only potential problem is the money of course. I could<\/em> do any of these things right now if I threw caution to the wind. I prefer to play it a little more conservative over here though. I have an interview at a school tomorrow. Here’s what I’m thinking… If I get the job with as many hours as I want to get, I’m so doing the Tibet trip. If I get the job but with fewer hours, I may or may not do the India trip. If I don’t get the job, I won’t go on any trip at all… Anyone want to go to Tibet with me?<\/p>\n OK, I’ve pretty much ruled out my Damascus trip. My rationale is that I can fly there from here cheaply whenever I want so why use up my sky miles on it, and I don’t really want to be in an Arab country for Ramadan. Yes yes, I know, it’s a unique experience etc etc. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}