On Friday, sitting in my truck in a snowstorm in the middle of yet another difficult project, I got thinking I can't wait for mid Jan, need a holiday NOW!
So...this is what I am thinking of:
Fly to Bangkok next week, spend a week in N. Thailand, then head to Saigon, working my way slowly up to Hanoi where I bus to Nanning and then train it to Shanghai, flying home after about 5 weeks total.
Assuming Shanghai will be cold by then but I thought a quick look at the 'New China' (haven't been there since 1991) would be interesting after R&R in the tropics.
Should be doable, no?