After months of planning, and shopping, and researching, and packing, and repacking, it’s hard to believe that we are this close to launching our Great Adventure. For so long it has seemed like “sometime next year”, that the reality of its imminence comes as a bit of a surprise. We’ve had a fairly narrow focus up till now trying to make sure that we’ve thought of everything and that everything is in place. Getting the visas required by several countries we will be visiting was probably the biggest hassle, particularly the ones for India that required extensive documentation. Past that now, but it was all quite aggravating. Knowing what clothing to pack was a bit of a conundrum. I finally got some help from the cruise line hostess who said that they don’t post weather related info on their website because it can vary so much. I guess they don’t want to deal with passengers who complain, “You said it would be 85 degrees and it was only 75 when we got there!” This is what she came up ...