Tickets! Visas!

There was much excitement amongst the tour participants yesterday and today as we started to receive packages from MTS Travel with our tickets and passports which had been sent for visa processing.

A life of travel has meant that I've always loved the simple act of getting a new stamp in my passport, though these days it's disappointing that most of the time the passport just gets swiped through an information reader. All the more exciting then, to have two full pages newly stamped, stickered, signed and stamped again with the various bureaucratic measures needed to visit parts of the world where bureaucracy rules!