Progress, but not as we no it

This edition finds our intrepd traveller with a promising idea, a new strategy with the la agente del recorrido'', and a few minor stumbling blocks.

Am asking for every possible flight that may appeal, and joining the dots from there...... looking for the enthusiasm to hold.

Alternates to Vietnam
OZ -> Dempesar -> HK -> Europe
OZ -> HK -> Mumbai (and Goa) -> Helsinki / London -> Amsterdam

Struggling to make it to Morocco and the southern tip of South America. The later forming the major stumbling block, although for both, trains, buses, and even the odd flights shouldn't be too difficult in these countries.

Ever growing scepticism of airline advertising

As I test my "problem solvered" old white box wireless connection issue and cooking my chicken patties, I ponder if the One World alliance, who I organising my RTW with, aren't just a big bunch of shits.

Repeatedly, destinations their website purports to be available, aren't. Some dodgy excuse about codeshare this and code share that. Rubbish!!! Is it that hard to have one page that list all the possible destinations for a RTW trip and actually be accurate?

Anyway, more decisions need to be made. Do we forgo Hong Kong and head to Osaka? Do we do both? Can we make it to patagonia, can we fly around Morocco.

hmmm I wonder how those patties are going. I also have a sneaking suspicion the spell check for this site does not work?

Planning dilemmas

Planning a four month holiday across four continents, you would surely expect more enthusiasm than I garner on a weekly basis?!?! We have a reasonably good "not too formal"schedule but there are only so many times you can read aboutslightly different tours of machu pichu that are all roughly the same, but in some way, just slightly not what you are after. That two, and reading about accomodation in boliva. Rubbish!!!


Then again, I do sound a bit like one of those prats of that lost tribes show, so I'll stop the complaining. Tuesday I meet with Rachel the travel agent, I am hoping to book the flights and the two small tours in Ecuador and Peru.

I often get the feeling that we are doing too much in four months and could have a better time spending the time just in South America?