August update
Well the tickets out of New Zealand are finally booked. We are going via Brendan’s sister’s place in Melbourne for a night before heading to Singapore and starting the South East (SE) Asia leg of the adventure.
I have now booked and paid for the first 6 weeks of the total 7 weeks in SE Asia. I had wanted to let it all be a bit more fluid, stay longer where we were enjoying and move on quicker where we didn’t like much but I soon worked out we were traveling at a peak time so have pre booked it all, hopefully I don’t regret it! Oh well. It’s done now! It does relieve the stress a bit, getting everything done before we leave the country is going to be quite the task so it will be good to just have to get from place to place without too much thought.
This term we are going to start packing our house, you know, those platters that never get used, the spare this and that. The grandparents have kindly said they’ll have our kids for a weekend once a month so we can get house jobs done with out two kids round our ankles “I’m hungry” “he looked at me and I don’t like it” “this is boring”
So now a new topic…..BK working on the road.
How exactly is BK working going to fit into all this. Quite an important part of the whole adventure! We had a lot of conversation about power and keeping everything charged, we finally settled on a plug/usb thing from Belkin. Where will he work? I think it will be a matter of who has the most solid internet connection! So a mix of co working spaces, cafes, our accommodation. What will he work on? He is already working on his Surface pro, we have added a travel (read: light in weight!) screen to his set up so he has more ‘real estate’ (in his words) to work with. When will he work? I’ve calculated he needs to work about 16 hours a week. I expect that the mornings will get taken up by exploring while everyone is fresh and the weather is cooler so I’m taking an educated guess it’ll be the afternoons/evenings/rainy days/when the kids and I are at something he doesn’t feel passionate about joining us/at any time there’s an influx on the server……so pretty much, he’ll wing it!!
So that’s me for now, the next post I’ll share what I’m planning on packing for the family….how much luggage does a family of 4 actually need?
Til next time,
Claire