Getting Ready...

Things are certainly coming together for my upcoming trip to Bangladesh, India, and Kazakhstan. I never knew that minutia could be so compelling! I think the idea of negotiating a contract with an educational institution in a former Soviet country has me double dipping on bureaucratic overhead! As of today I have sent my passport off to Washington DC for the 3rd time in an attempt to secure my Kazakhstan visa. Oh to have known in advance where I was going so I could have sent it off only once! But that, combined with booking travel for my wife Joyce to meet me in Kazakhstan, has certainly made the trip feel real - finally!