We’ve bought the tickets!

Ahhh!! We’ve finally done it! The tickets have been bought.

As much as I was originally rushing to buy the tickets on Saturday, I’m really glad we took them home and worked out a couple little details, or rather the Collases did and I just agreed to whatever they decided. Nonetheless, here is the new schedule, which now includes a night in New York and a couple days in New Delhi. The leave date, however, remains the same. 29 days to go… am I counting right?

Booking Confirmation

Good news!

Ariana and I just got back from STA. We spent well over two hours creating the perfect itinerary with Ryan, who looked like he had spent quite a significant amount of time perfecting his really-hung-over-and-just-rolled-out-of-bed look. He actually turned out to be a really helpful guy, and, although we couldn’t buy the tickets, we do have confirmed seats on 13 flights over the next 3 months. I’m going to post the itinerary so you (and we!) can keep track of our journey. I’m also going to try to find the thing on the STA website where you can make a map of your trip to put on the blog.

We also got our student ID cards at STA. We realized that we should have gone a few years ago to get $22 fake IDs because we could have provided any information at all and got a nice official looking card. You don’t need to prove anything. You can say you’re from any university at all and give your date of birth as anything over 12 and under 26. I can’t believe more people don’t take advantage of this.. well actually I’m sure many do, I just wish I had found out earlier.

Anyway, the important thing is that we now have seats confirmed and student IDs. We leave September 7th and visit 10 countries over 10 months. The other amazing thing is that the average flight cost is under $300! Under $300 for international flights.. it’s so nice to be a student. Anyway, 34 days until lift off!!