Well, this is not my best performance as a planner. I made arrangements online versus going through travel agents because the prices i was getting were soo high on this three country itinerary. I mean we went roundtrip Manila to Bangkok for $225 each plus around a hundred dollars to fly to Myanmar and Vietnam. All was well…. until we checked in today for our flight after our third 4 hour sleep night.

“Sir, do you have a visa to enter vietnam?”

And i knew i was dead.

You hardly ever need a visa to enter an Asian country and when I do… you guessed it… a travel agent would inform me and automatically do it and I would just go to the airport and there in my passport it would have already stamped. This time I did it myself.

I totally forgot about such things. So we are now in Bangkok during a four day national holiday waiting for offices to open. Trying to get one directly from Vietnam via fax to the airport here just to let us travel.

One thing’s for sure. I won’t forget this again.