count 'em

Count 'em, 21 days of work left!!!!

Would not be able to survive these hours at work without the four months break :))))

Five weeks to heaven

Shots, shots and more shots..... yellow feaver, hep a + b, typhoid and waiting on a medical clearance for the flights..... Works is all consuming, but FIVE WEElKS TO GO!!!!!

Have had random thoughts about catching a rugby game in bordeaux for the world cup. Apart from that, only movement on dates and times is to spend more time in south america and less in europe....

So far will visit Beth's friend Zoe in Holland, Ellen in Belgium, and maybe the DECSies in London Southy and Vanessa, and I also hear the lumberjack, Derek Ryan will be in the mother country.

Would love to fit in the octoberfest, but don't want to push to much.

The cows will get up tonight which might help something else....

I have to stop eating those marshmallows

Progress has started to unfold. We have a nice little trip so far, although somewhat more modest than initial estimations. You don't want to get trapped into visiting too many places without fulling experiencing the each destination.

Firstly off to Hong Kong, then two weeks in Holland, followed by three in spain, six in ecuador, peru and bolivia, and give in argentina and chile..... although we can't seem to get home.

Meanwhile wedding preparations are in full swing, spanish homework has lessened, although we seem to be making progress on the major project at work....hmmm... I need to work less.

Anyway, I'd better stop eating marshmallows

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?

Blue footed booby?!?

With no one listening, watching, or subscribing, I inauspiciously commence this blog to document the planning, preparation, the actual, and the unfortunate return to work from a four month odyssey around the globe. Starting out in Adelaide Australia, the plan insists of two weeks in vietnam, four in benelux, three in spain and morocco, three in the Andies and the home of the are blue footed booby, four in the southern cone, and a few rest days in Auckland. Anything remotley resembling additional details are stricly persona non grata.

Oh yeah, and somewhere along the way, I'm maryying my parter of almost four years, the lovely Beth - so I may be sidetracked by the odd reference.