After much discussion J and I solidified the end date of our RTW trip by purchasing our tickets home. Originally, we were planning to take a real week-long vacation at the end of our trip, perhaps an all-inclusive deal by the water. Instead, we decided to save J's vacation days for right before I start my job (if and when I get one). Destination front-runners had included Santorini (Greece), Maldives and Lake Como (Italy). You might be thinking how spoiled we are for not considering any of these places tempting enough when we would already be so close geographically and will probably have no better opportunity in the future. To be honest, our decision was more based on the growing feeling of homesickness and tiredness from 7 months of travel, including the past month spent in Beijing which completely broke us. In the end we decided there's no where else we'd rather be than home!
To our surprise a one-way ticket from Rome to Seattle is twice as expensive as a round-trip fare! So, we bought the round-trip fare with the intentions of ditching the return trip to Rome. However, since the return ticket to Rome connects through Atlanta, I may just hop onto that leg to visit my good friend Jadda and then come back to Seattle on a separate one-way fare! This way I'll be able to use 75% of the ticket. =) I guess I'll have to see how my job hunting effort goes before decided on whether or not I will make this trip.
Current Location: Beijing, China