In February of 2012, I took a 3-week tour to southeast Asia,
specifically to Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. As with many of
my previous trips, my wife found the itinerary a bit too exotic for her
tastes, so she sent me off on my own. I made arrangements for a solo
tour through
Indochina Odyssey Tours (IOT),
a company I highly recommend. IOT arranged tour guides, hotels, and
flights within Indochina–I just needed to make arrangements for getting
from the USA to Bangkok to begin the tour, and from Bangkok back to the
USA to end the tour.
Never missing an opportunity to add a new country to my list, I
booked flights to and from Bangkok to go through countries I had never
been to (Ethiopia and South Korea), and arranged enough layover time so
that I would have time to take day tours of Addis Ababa and Seoul.
Here is a map of the Southeast Asia part of my journey (click on the map for a larger version):
So, bright and early on February 4, I strode into the terminal at Dulles Airport to
begin my journey…..
