One Day You’ll Find that I Have Gone

Back in May, I wrote that Kenny and I had intended to keep our itinerary for our Guatemala/Belize trip somewhat flexible — and then we ended up booking hotels for almost every night of the trip a few weeks before we left. We’re doing better at being spontaneous for Vietnam and Cambodia. We leave in less than a week, and so far we’ve reserved two things:

1. Our first hotel (in Hanoi).
2. A two-day cruise on Halong Bay. Ordinarily I’d wait to book tours, but everyone on the TripAdvisor Vietnam Forum raved about this particular boat and urged that it was necessary to book in advance.

In fact, I’m not even sure where we’ll be headed after Halong Bay. I have a loose itinerary sketched out, but we want to keep quite a bit of flexibility in it so that we can reroute based on weather. There are a few places we’d like to visit in the central coast, but November-December is apparently the rainy season there, which could jeopardize our beach time. We’ll try to do as Paul intended and follow the sun.