We bought our tickets! After looking at the options of where to fly out and maybe seeing the inlaws in Minnesota, the best decision was to fly from Boise. As much as a stop in Minneapolis would have been fun, it turned out to be too costly.
Our itinerary:
Leave Boise and fly to Seattle
Fly from Seattle to Honolulu
Fly from Honolulu to Guam
Fly from Guam to Manila, Philippines
Fly from Manila to Puerto Princesa, Philippines
Take a bus from Puerto Princesa to Sabang
We will stay in Sabang until, well, we get tired of it!
More on the booking process later!
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Vaccinated and Innoculated
So today was our appointment with the Travel Medicine Clinic. We were helped by an awesome Nurse Practitioner named April Kreitzer. She is at the Saint Luke's Travel Medicine clinic, and Molly and I strongly recommend her.
Anyhow, Southeast Asia is a hotbed of virulent disease. And monkeys. Virulent disease and monkeys. All in all, we ended up with 5 shots each and an oral Typhoid vaccine. Here's the list:
Influenza - Shot
Japanese Encephalitis - Shot
Mumps/Measles/Rubella - Shot
Tetanus/Diptheria - Shot
Hepatitis A & B - Shot
Typhoid - Oral
In addition, we have perscriptions for antimalaria pills and a variety of other goodies. All in all, I think we're going to rattle a bit. You have to take a LOT of pills for malaria and we will be going back and forth through malaria country the whole time we're in SE Asia.
We had the option on one other treatment but opted out: Rabies. That's right, we can be attacked by foaming, psychotic critters. The list was rodents, dogs, bats and monkeys. We have been reading the rules on monkeys. No petting the monkeys. Monkeys steal shit. Let the monkeys steal your shit. With any luck, they get bored and abandon your stuff in a small radius of where it was pilfered.
Update: it is now 2 days after the shots and we're at our lowest. We both feel a little funky and our arms are sore at best. Molly reached out to her sister Kelcey who recently went to South Africa about her immunizations. Kelcey's response: Wow, I only had to get a flu shot! That sucks!
Thanks Kelcey.
Anyhow, Southeast Asia is a hotbed of virulent disease. And monkeys. Virulent disease and monkeys. All in all, we ended up with 5 shots each and an oral Typhoid vaccine. Here's the list:
Influenza - Shot
Japanese Encephalitis - Shot
Mumps/Measles/Rubella - Shot
Tetanus/Diptheria - Shot
Hepatitis A & B - Shot
Typhoid - Oral
In addition, we have perscriptions for antimalaria pills and a variety of other goodies. All in all, I think we're going to rattle a bit. You have to take a LOT of pills for malaria and we will be going back and forth through malaria country the whole time we're in SE Asia.
We had the option on one other treatment but opted out: Rabies. That's right, we can be attacked by foaming, psychotic critters. The list was rodents, dogs, bats and monkeys. We have been reading the rules on monkeys. No petting the monkeys. Monkeys steal shit. Let the monkeys steal your shit. With any luck, they get bored and abandon your stuff in a small radius of where it was pilfered.
Update: it is now 2 days after the shots and we're at our lowest. We both feel a little funky and our arms are sore at best. Molly reached out to her sister Kelcey who recently went to South Africa about her immunizations. Kelcey's response: Wow, I only had to get a flu shot! That sucks!
Thanks Kelcey.
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