October 23, 2002
Tickets
I finalized my tickets, I'm leaving for England on November 28th! I'll be spending a month with my family. Then it will be off to India for a pilgrimage of sorts.
I ended up getting my ticket through STA Travel. Turns out that the tickets they got come from airtreks.com who I had also received a quote from (I think airtreks.com is linked from the BootsnAll web site).
Michael the travel guy I am working with at STA has put a lot of extra effort into finding out about visas, etc. and the price was basically the same as what airtreks quoted. I also tried to get a ticket through Via Travel (here in Boulder), I waited 3 or 4 business days and they were not able to get me a price estimate so I took them off my list.
The ticket I'm getting has legs to all of the countries I want to visit (Denver to London, London to Bombay, overland to Delhi, Delhi to Bangkok, Bangkok to Hong Kong, overland to Shanghai, Shanghai to Tokyo, overland to Osaka and Osaka to Taipei. All dates are changeable at no cost (except the first one flying out of the US). It ends up in Taipei with no forward leg so I can either get a ticket home or I can continue on through Bali, New Zealand and Australia.
Sounds like I'm going to need a forward ticket out of Taipei before I get there. Will probably get it in Tokyo.
Posted by binduwavell at October 23, 2002 05:37 PM