Old friends, new places. We were six In the US, five in Siberia, now all there is left is us four. So once again, one has dropped out. But it’s understandable, because he had to take his dog out. It’s going to be different this time in other ways too. For example everyone is starting the trip from different places in different times as well as returning to different countries at different times. If we get lucky, maybe we “accidentally” don’t even find each others in Asia at all? Wouldn’t that be great? Well, let’s see how it turns out!
As said before, we are four friends living in different parts of Europe nowadays: Olli (Jyväskylä, Finland), Sampo (Helsinki, Finland), Lauri a.k.a. Peltsi (Riga, Latvia) and Esa (Moscow, Russia). The plan is to travel around Indochina, visited countries will be Myanmar (former Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. The rest of us are travelling around five weeks and Esa is probably staying there forever.
We will update the blog every now and then, depending on where we find internet connections. Hopefully we’ll manage to upload some pics also. Well, enough said at this point, let’s go already! Have fun reading the blog!
Earlier trips made with the same guys (in Finnish):
Trans-Mongolia train (2009), Russia-Mongolia-China-Japan
Road Trip in USA (2006)
Some kind of a preliminary route plan:
Esa, why are you leaving? You'll miss the beautiful winter in Moscow! (And we will miss you...)
ReplyDeleteAnd for those who don't understand Olli's humor (does anybody?): it's true that a certain someone has to take his dog out, but it is also true that same person has to work, unlike some people who seem to spend their whole life studying. And travelling.
ReplyDeleteAnyway. Have good trip! I'm coming to Bangkok at the end of january, so I'll be in the neighborhood. But hopefully I can stay away from all of you four.
Best wishes,
The dropout aka Kanye.
We love you too Kanye. We will have cheap beers for your memory in Laos. Tell your dog Hello for me, would you?
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Pate and the others
Janye-Kanye, as far as I know Esa hasn't been seen in Turku for at least a decade - and I also remember having attended a certain event last August called "Call me master! / Valmistujaiset / Läksiäiset" in Kauniainen... So don't generalize too much about lazy student life! Anyways, I'm sure you know "now that don't kill me, can only make me stronger" ;-)
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