Upcoming Travels

I leave for Morocco on Saturday but I have several other trips in various stages of planning as well.

MOROCCO: 
Dec. 19, 2009 to Jan. 6, 2010 - mainly as part of an Intrepid tour: Colours of Morocco but I have a couple of extra days in Marrakech at the end.

BORNEO: 
Feb. 13 to 16, 2010 - Climbing Mt. Kinabalu on Feb. 14 and 15. 

NEPAL:
March 27 to April 4, 2010 - booked flights to Kathmandu and send an email off to book a trekking tour today


AFRICA:
June 11 to July 31 (and maybe into August), 2010 - I haven't booked flights yet and I may be adding a trip at the beginning of August but the plan so far is to start in Nairobi and do 4 Intrepid trips in a row ending up in Johannesburg. The trips are Kenya Adventure, Kenya to Vic Falls (which goes through Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia), Okavango & Beyond (Botswana and South Africa) and Kruger Adventure. The trip I may add would be either from Durban to Capetown or vice versa. Intrepid isn't running their trips between those two cities but I have a couple other companies to check out.


Ah the life of an expatriate teacher.

The pile of books by my bed

The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi (given to me as a gift, I started it but put it down and haven't picked it back up)

Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières (started but taking a break to read other stuff - very cool as I visited the town in Turkey on which the one in the novel is based this summer)

The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman, Book 2 in the His Dark Materials trilogy (picked it up from a friend who is leaving Singapore and purging her bookshelf)

A Kingsley Amis Omnibus (from the same friend as The Subtle Knife)

The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb (I read it in August and thoroughly enjoyed it)

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (I read it while on holiday in July and it was good)

The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Dìaz (I heard an interview with the author sometime in early 2009 and read the book in July or August - quite a good book)

Born to Run by Christopher McDougall (on loan to me from the school library of a teacher-librarian friend - I haven't started it yet)

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (checked out to me from our middle school library and the book I'm currently reading) 

And so it begins.

This isn't really for you but it's ok if you read it. I've decided it's time I start to blog but I haven't decided what to blog about or who my audience is to be. In the meantime, I'm going to play with my settings and layout and see what happens.