So where I have I been and what have I been doing since the last blog entry on this site?
It's been a hectic time of planning and arranging our world tour. We are leaving in June for a trip that will take us 360 Degrees in 360 Days. How exciting is that? It's the most smiley thing we could be doing. We could have waited until we retired and taken the 'trip of a lifetime' but why wait? Carpe Diem and all that.
It's a trip of three parts starting with an overland section from Hammersmith to Sydney in Australia with a company called Madventure. We will be travelling by truck along the Asian Silk Route, through Mongolia and China into South East Asia, to Indonesia before taking a short flight to Darwin where we travel on through Australia's Red Centre and Blue Mountains, arriving in Sydney in December this year.
We will then start section two. We plan to travel around Australia for three months seeing as much as we can and visiting relatives on each side of the country, mine near Brisbane and Nick's in Fremantle. We will be travelling using Greyhound Kilometre Passes which we can trade in for tours like the one which crosses the Nullarbor Desert, or the Coral Coast Trip or the Great Ocean Road Tour, just to name a few of the trips we have planned. Kellie, the supervisor at the Rockhampton Greyhound Terminal has already gone beyond the call of duty in the help she has given us in planning this bit of the trip and will definitely be getting a beer or two when we pass through the beef capital of Australia.
Part three sees us leaving Sydney on a cruise ship that will take us home via the South Pacific Islands: Bora Bora, Moorea, Hiva Oa, amongst others. We have gone for a little bit of luxury with the Oceania cruise. It will take three months to get us back to Southampton. After visiting Pitcairn and Easter Island, we reach the coast of South America giving us a chance to do a side trip to Macchu Picchu before we travel through the Panama Canal, stopping at several Caribbean islands before visiting a number of places on the East coast of the USA and Canada. Crossing the Atlantic in early June we arrive back in the UK exactly 360 days after we started. We are still working on the plan for the five days that would mean we had been away for a whole year. Current thinking is that we will walk back to London.... well, we'll see.
It's going to be fabulous. Plenty of chances to Fill Up Our Eyes and to go 'Wow' every day.
You can follow our adventure on our travel blog: 360 Degrees in 360 Days
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