Well India it is, unless something drastically changes from here until Monday…

We leave on Monday, and get there on a Thursday.  How’s that for time changes, and long layovers?  We bought 2 separate tickets– Puerto Rico -> New York City.  NYC -> Helsinki -> New Delhi.  We have a 6 hour layover in NYC, and a 12 hour layover in Helsinki.  There’s a CouchSurfer who we hope to meet for coffee/food in Helsinki, provided the Panamanian in our entourage doesn’t get stopped at immigration (which is usually the case when she pulls out a Panamanian passport, US resident card, a marriage certificate, and a slew of immigration papers).

Apparently Helsinki in December is not only colder than PR, but a whole lot darker.  If it’s too cold, I’ll fake some traveler’s diarrhea at the last minute and stay indoors.  No shame there– my plan was tropical India, not tundrid Helsinki in the winter.

• Passport, check.
• Empty backpack so I can buy cheap clothes in India, check.
• Phone numbers of unknown CouchSurfers in India/Helsinki, check.
• Email scanned copies of passports to self, check.
• SSH key on an USB stick, check.
• Email 50 pages of scanned nurse anesthesia reviews for Yanory to forget about, and never study while on vacation, check.