Mar 2008

After the third consecutive late arrival at work today we managed to arrange purchase of our tickets! It’s a strange feeling handing over all that cash and only receiving a ticket back but it brings out the reality that we are actually leaving soon!

Stops are:

Melbourne – Tokyo – Hanoi – Ho Chi Ming – Hong Kong – Helsinki – Berlin – Paris – Edinburgh – Dublin – London – Mexico City – Cancun – Reno (San Francisco) - New York – Miami – New York – Vancouver – Melbourne

..................and everywhere in between!

I arranged an international drivers licence yesterday (the licence looks very cold war like "papers please") I might try my hand at driving on the wrong side of the road at some stage, thinking a Cadillac in the USA.

Working on the packing situation at this stage, trying to figure out if I should take the sleeping bag or not. We have decided against the recommendations of packing only one t-shirt one pair of shorts and one pair of socks and underwear for two days, but will still be keeping the content of our packs to a minimum!

As you can see in the picture (taken on the new camera) Emily’s bag on the left is already a little full!

10.5 days of work to go!

Emily and I had our final round of shots today, for some reason Emily always ends up getting more shots than I do!

Made the essential purchase of a gastro kit as well, seems that there is less in it than we were originally told but at least we are ready for the inevitable ...

I also managed to purchase a camera today, after much deliberation I decided on the new Ricoh R8.

Now we can start publishing some pictures!

12 more working days to go!

Have moved over to this site as it is a bit more user friendly!

"After saving up our pennies for the last year and a half we are soon to embark on a big holiday!

The plan is to travel until we have run out of money and the possibly pick up some work in Canada. We will use this site to log our travels and photos as we go."

Route Plan