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Leaving Japan, August 28. Here's what I have to sort out before then.

VISAS:
China
Vietnam
India
Burma
Mongolia
Russia

China, I should have in the next day or two. Hopefully I won't have to go to Tokyo and back for every single one of the others because that would probably end up being the most expensive part of this whole thing. Burma, at least, told me they could do the whole thing by mail, in ten days. Russia won't be easy. India will. Vietnam & Mongolia are a mystery.

HOSTELS
Seoul
Hanoi (maybe, might just wing it)
Qingdao (my first stop in China)
Moscow
St. Petersburg

TRAVEL
Bangkok <-> Yangon flights. Oct 9-16, probably. This will be cheap and easy to do online, once I get the Burmese visa.

Somewhere -> Ulaanbaatar flight. Have to figure out the cheapest way to get here from, uh, somewhere. I'm open to trains too.

Trans-Mongolian Railway, Ulaanbaatar to Moscow. January 12 - 16. Booking this should be pretty easy once the visas are in place. Helps that I'm doing it way in advance.