Monday, 27 September 2010

Getting ready to go!!


Hi all! Well we are making the final last-minute plans before we leave for the airport tomorrow, like trying to sell our 97 VW car...we have been really surprised that people haven't flooded our inbox with emails making offers to buy it. Live and learn. Don't leave your car to sell the week before you leave. :) We have at least packed our rucksacks and yes, when I wear it I look like I have doubled! I just can't figure out what to take out of it...I really don't have that much stuff in it.


So for those of you who don't know yet, LJ and I have decided to move across the ocean to the US, hopefully San Francisco if we can find jobs and a place to lay our heads. We spent over a year applying and waiting for the red tape to clear to get LJ's spouse visa/green card to move there and he was approved on 3 September, hooray!!!! So, we have decided to take a final hoo-rah to Asia before we settle across the pond.


We are flying to Hong Kong and will spend 3 months travelling overland around China, hopefully Tibet, and Nepal. For those of you who are surprised to hear that we are not including India in this itinerary, as we had previously planned, we had a little hiccup with the Indian visa so we unfortunately cannot make it there this time around! Basically we couldn't get one in time before leaving because I am not a permanent resident in the UK according to the Indian embassy. They have the most fabulous way of verifying that as well. So, it is really easy. All you have to do is stay at the same address for 2 years and keep the same utility company for those 2 years in order to get processed as a UK resident...you have to provide a utility bill from 2 years ago and a bill from the same utility company sent to the same address from the most recent month. Well, what do you know, I have never lived anywhere in England for 2 years so that counts me out, full stop! I think it is a brilliant process and India really have their stuff together for coming up with such a fabulous way of checking up on residency. We are just happy that this happened with the visa to India and NOT to the US! Anyhow, that just leaves us more time to see more things in the other areas, and there should be plenty. So, just as a lot of athletes are doing for the India 2010 Commonwealth games, we are going to give India a miss!


I suppose I should really stop blogging now and get to that infinite list of last-minute things before we leave in a few hours!

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