After grading 150 exams on Friday, I was pretty spent and ready for vacation. Since I needed to do some running around and wanted to meet up with a couple of the fellow Harbin travellers to exchange pictures, I left for Kaifaqu yesterday morning to hang with Darren and accomplish these tasks.
After meeting up with D and doing some trip planning, we headed back to his place. I picked up the tab for the taxi back and headed up to his apartment. What, you may ask, did I do to garner the "moron" title?
TWO DAYS BEFORE I'M FLYING OFF ON VACATION, I LOSE MY WALLET BY LETTING IT FALL OUT OF MY POCKET IN THE TAXI!
Ridiculous! As I'm sure you guessed, I've spent the past two days furiously attempting to: a) find my wallet and, b) sort out some way to still go on vacation with no debit card(s), no credit card, no secondary ID and no direct access to any of these banking funds.
Luckily, I'm friends with some of the most wonderful people on the planet, my family is particularly amazing, and after cancelling my Visa and transferring some money electronically, I was able to get my hands on some funds for the first leg of the trip. The rest of the money will have to be acquired in a similar fashion, and although it's going to end up being costly, I'm still going to be able to pull it off. I'm sure you can also guess that this little episode has added a bit to the pre-adventure stress. It's going to be a bit tricky booking hostels, etc., but I'm gonna do my best to figure it all out as I go.
So, on that note, the clock is currently chiming for 11pm on Sunday night, and I'm packed. Just a few last-minute cleaning tasks remain for the morning, and I'm off to south-east China for leg one of the 6 week trip. I'll likely have a limited amount of time to write and post, but I'll do my best to keep everyone up to date. In the meantime, take care, all.
T
oh Trev that sucks!!! good luck sorting that out. I guess that's karma getting you back for having such a great holiday planned :P
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