I love a good plan and I love to stick to it

In case you are the count down type, there are only 8 days left until we will be on a plane on our way to Thailand.  Well, that is the plan despite the current situation in Thailand.  Today has been a crazy day of trying to get news, looking into trip insurance policies, calling airlines to find out how they will deal with things if the airport shuts down.  You know, fun stuff that really all people should do before traveling, but we really need to do it now.  Right now, the first change we should make is switching from a hotel downtown to an airport hotel.  If Bangkok is not safe to tour on our one planned day there, then we hang out and drink Mia Thai's and recoup from jet lag.  I can think of worse things to deal with...

Today we did scour Earthwatch's website to look at possibly switching expeditions if travel HAD to be canceled.  We looked at things like Amazon River Cruises, Sea Turtle Research in Costa Rica, Panda Bears in China, and Marmots in the French Alps, oh and the Australian rain forest.  While they all had amazing components, they just did not match up, time wise, flight wise, cost wise, objective wise, or we needed a visa and don't have enough time to get one.

But, finally we figure out the plan B (hopeful we don't end up needing C because I can't think of one at this pint.)  Plan B, which will only go into effect if the airport is shut down or the US state department increases their travel advisory level, is that we would switch to an expedition at the very end of the summer.  It would still be a total pain in the rear to unravel and rework all of the plans we have made, but not as difficult as starting over from scratch.  Regardless, we will be going to Thailand this summer.  Well, that is, if the conflict is resolved quickly, like in less than 8 days preferably.