SAS Trips

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SAS tries hard to make good trips, but for kids, they really suck.  They’re nothing but sight-seeing and really fancy restaurants and really fancy hotels.  You never get to explore on your own, and they’re incredibly overprogrammed (from like 5am until like 9:30pm).  There is a TON of transportation time – we took a flight literally every day and were on the bus for hours and hours every day.  You never got to keep your feet on the ground.  You were always with The Tour.  You were always on The Itinerary.  You can never talk to anyone from the place unless they schedule it for you or you break the rules and break away.  I actually tried to break away, but our group leader said that we couldn’t because they were holding our passports (they should have just given us our damn passports) and that if anything went wrong we’d be screwed, in Cambodia, with no passport.  Which is why they should have given us the passport.  But they were clearly inconvincible so I gave up.

 

I cancelled my Taj Mahal trip and I’m incredibly happy.  There was literally almost nothing I wanted to do in India less than see the Taj Mahal.  I literally would have sat against a wall in a slum and starved for two days before I went to see the Taj with Semester at Sea.  Even if no one could talk to me, I’d be hungry like they were.

 

But I’m going exploring with Spencer instead.  He looks like Jesus.  It’ll be fun.

 

And yeah, in case I didn’t say it clearly before, I really liked Vietnam and really love Cambodia and hope to return.