The Plan In Its Current Form...

My plans for the next few months are actually pretty firm at this point, so I wanted to share a brief sketch with you all.
Now –June 26: final weeks of regular classes.
June 26 - July 1: final trip to Tokyo.
July 2 - July 17: final weeks of irregular classes, graduations, and good-bye parties.
July 18 - July 26: return to Chiiori in Shikoku and return to Kumano Kodo in Wakayama to “do it right”
July 27 – August 1: Return home to finish cleaning and emptying my house, meet my replacement, and help him settle in.
August 2 – 9: final travel in Japan, including hiking up Mt. Fuji, and possibly the Japanese Alps and Sea of Japan.
August 10/11. Leave Japan from Osaka, take train to Shimonoseki, ferry to Pusan in S. Korea, then train to Seoul.
August 11-13?: chill in Korea somewhere, maybe meet David Q.
August 14: Fly from Seoul to Hanoi, Vietnam.
The rest of August: Hopefully met up with Deborah H. Chill in Vietnam and make our way south.
Late August: Enter Cambodia and go to Phnom Penh, where Deborah has an internship.
September: travel around Cambodia with possible trips to Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, etc.
Early October: Fly to New Delhi, India.
October: Travel around India looking for volunteer opportunity.
November-March: hopefully be involved in some meaningful contribution to the betterment of humanity, or something like that, with one major pause to check out Nepal.
April: Fly to Kenya... and from that point things are too vague to keep putting them in concrete words!

That’s how things look at this point, and it’s all just around the corner! I like how this buffer of friends has sprouted up between Japan and India. Going straight to India might have been a traumatic shock to my system. If anyone has any tips, insights, or questions, let me know! And as always I’ll do my best to keep you all informed!