Where has the time gone?  I know I've been naughty and not updated my blog lately - apparently 44 days says the website!  I can only make the excuse that I've been extremely busy both working and booking things. This time round for me (the travel) it's completely independent - no hotels, no groups etc.

We're both on a budget for these 4 months away and knowing what we want to do we will go over that which is why I'm appealing for money!  LOL  But honestly, we will be paying some of this trip off when we get back which will be quite depressing but that's life I spose.  The main decisions we've had to make are where we want car hire, for how long and also do we go see Uluru (Ayers Rock).  The latter has been a pain in the butt to say the least - we've definitely decided to go see it but it's so expensive getting there so we're basically gonna fly from Cairns into Alice Springs, hire a car for 2 days, see Uluru at sunset and sunrise and go back to Alice Springs and fly to Melbourne. 

The majority of things are booked - not spontaneous I know but because it's spring going into summer by the time we get down-under everything is booking up very quickly.  We only just managed to hire a campervan in Oz coz the one we did originally want had already gone so sometimes it is better to think ahead.  The only spontaneity that we will have is all of the campsites we'll need for NZ and Oz.

So the itinerary is this.... San Francisco to LA for nearly 2 weeks, onto Hawaii for a long weekend, Fiji for about 8 days, Auckland - campervan to Christchurch which we have 19 days to do, fly to Sydney, drive to Cairns, over to Uluru, down to Melbourne and back to Sydney which we have 8 weeks to do.  Then...   fly to Singapore for a few days, onto Kuala Lumpur for a few more, spend christmas on a beach in phuket, onto Bangkok for a week and spend New Year there and then final stop to Hong Kong.  Of course the Asia parts I've already done but I enjoyed those places so I'm happy to go back and show Ria the sights and sounds.  I think if we both had had more money then I would have recommended we go for longer and maybe experience other places like Peru and Brazil ...... one day though!

So in total we're away for 4 months and 2 days and will miss xmas and new year here but hey, these opportunities don't come along every day.

As for packing etc we're just in the process of washing all of our stuff to take with us and putting all of our affairs in order.  I think we're pretty much sorted though - phew, as I wipe a drip of sweat from my brow! lol

So, I guess that is probably it from me - I've more or less given you my itinerary - except the exact dates coz I don't want to turn up and find you there!  And for postcards I will do my very best so send some but I certainly won't promise to!

But anyway, take care everyone and we'll see you all in the New Year - keep reading tho