The adventure begins!

Ready for staging

July 13 - hanging out in California, waiting for our staging event starting July 14.  We were having lunch in Napa when the call rang out - "hang tight, your visas to enter Cambodia have been delayed. Expect to wait some two or three weeks for us to clear this up"

Wow, what were we supposed to do?  No job, no home, everything we own is in our few suitcases and we were ready for service... Since the Peace Corps offered to return us to our home of record (Playa de San Juan, Spain) and we had no real reason to return there, we began scheming where and how to spend these unexpected weeks.  After much deliberation, we settled on hiring an Air B&B in a retreat on Kauai, Hawaii.  Sounded pretty ideal, so we called SATO Travel, the official travel agency for the Peace Corps and after much time passed were told that they didn't have the authority to buy the tickets yet, call again in the morning.  We went to bed, thinking that we'd be homeless in Hawaii.

[Almost] Homeless in Hawaii

The next morning, July 14, the original date of the staging, we called SATO again.  This time we were told that the trip was back on and that we'd need to contact the Peace Corps for details.  What a roller coaster!  Turns out that the visas magically appeared sometime during the night (in the U.S.) and we would still be able to make our previously scheduled flight, late evening July 15.

Finally, ready to go

So here it is, July 15, and we are in a deluxe king suite in the airport Hilton (on the Peace Corps) waiting to go to the airport.  We'll see what adventures are yet to come.