Travel Reservations, Mailing Address and Other Items of Business

We booked our plane tickets through the government travel office and now have firm plans to be on our way!

We fly out of San Diego on Thursday, February 4th at 11:30 am and arrive in Philadelphia, PA at 7:30pm.  The Peace Corps is putting us up in hotel for two nights during Staging. However, check-in with the Peace Corps isn’t until Friday evening so we can hopefully enjoy exploring Philadelphia that day. We want to check out the Liberty Bell, run up the “Rocky” steps and get a Philly cheese steak. Any other suggestions?

The only problem is we will be packing to live in the tropics for two years. Our packing plans did not include cold weather jackets or scarves. Unless anyone can think of any better solutions, we will buy cheap coats at the Salvation Army in San Diego and give them away in Philadelphia or just tough it out with layered long sleeved shirts and the raincoats we are already bringing. Sort of a hassle but what can we do?

We, along with the rest of the Guyana Groups 22 PCTs will have a day-long information session on Saturday. Then we all hop on a bus from Philly to JFK and fly out on a red eye direct to Guyana. By Sunday, February 7th we will be in Georgetown.

We are SUPER EXCITED!!!!

Here are some items of business:

Our mailing address during training:
Chelsea or Timothy Tibbs, PCT
Peace Corps Guyana
c/o U.S. Embassy
100 Young & Duke Streets
Georgetown, Guyana
South America

We will let you know when we get our site assignment and this address changes.

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