exit strategies

once and a while l2 and i dream up the ways we're going to leave this country. We're still never sure when (and I doubt we ever will be certain until the week before!) but we have planned how we're going to leave if we can afford it! We call it the exit strategy. We both want to take three months off before coming home just to travel. Two ideas we're banging around are:

Out of Africa - Start at Egyptian pyramids, head down the Nile and go south from there - Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar and maybe Mauritius

or

No planes, no gain. - Ferry hop from the UK to St. Petersburg and take the Trans-Siberian from St. Petersburg to Shanghai. Then it breaks and we either explore the rest of China by train/bus or take a boat over to Japan and take the bullet trains.

Which one would you prefer?

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