I've never been so happy not to have a conference call start on time. I am currently sitting in my office with the door closed listening to Lite Rock come out of the speaker phone. Relaxing! Although I'm starting to worry I dialed the wrong number somehow...

Do you need an organised tour, bon? Can't you rent bicycles and take it at your own pace?

It's become readily apparent that I could spend the rest of my life just taking Central and South American vacations. Which will never do, since I have to get back to Africa, and I've still not been to Asia.

ita, of all the links you have posted, that one was the worst. I am well and truly drooling over almost every tour they offer. Not that I can see every tour, given there are thousands of them, but I sure am wasting a planning period trying!

Do you need an organised tour, bon? Can't you rent bicycles and take it at your own pace?

Presumably, but given I probably can't reserve until a week or so before leaving with my work schedule, it's just easier to have all accomodations and planning taken care of.

it's just easier to have all accomodations and planning taken care of.

I guess this is why travel agents aren't completely out of business.

Well, that and my parents.

Apparently there is some sort of satellite/cable box/service in the UK that shares a name with a piece of software we wrote. Apparently, they are having service issues.

You should ask if they'd like to fly you out to the UK to address the problem!

The people on my conference call need to stop talking about role playing and ticklers. Cognitive dissonance! Head go 'slodey!

You should ask if they'd like to fly you out to the UK to address the problem!

I really don't think that would be compensation enough for dealing with their variety of idiots. Oy. I've been kind enough to send back a response stating they have the wrong address and have received poorly spelled chatspeak "yeah, but I have this question"-style emails.

I guess this is why travel agents aren't completely out of business.

ugh. I had the WORST travel agent for this project. I wanted to have everyone call her directly, easiest for me. She said no, can you send me a list. I said fine, thinking that she would take it from there. No, she wanted me to confrirm the itineraries with the students, etc. Then, for the students with train tickets, she actually sent the tickets into work with her husband (he works at the U) for ME to go to his office and pick up. She was AWFUL and I will never use her again. Someone (who I now think is an idiot) recommended her to me, and her husband works here and I like him a lot, otherwise, I would have been much nastier. I mean, what the hell is a travel agent FOR. I could have done a travelocity search my damn self!

So, of course I was sending an unrelated email when someone on my conference call asked me a direct question.