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…
“You are so LUCKY!!!!” “You are going to have the best time ever!” “You will learn so much!” are things our children hear frequently when they or we tell someone about our trip. It’s highly amusing because until the last couple of months they had nooooooo idea what they were in for! (And still don’t really!) We decided that maybe we should do something ourselves to get their excitement rolling. After tossing around a few ideas we settled on each…
10 months to go! The January tasks have been ticked off. We’ve had a lovely summer including some day trips out to Waitomo Caves and up to the top of Coromandel to go on a railway. We camped down the east coast at Ohiwa and did plenty of walks whether it be in the bush or up/around Mount Maunganui. I also ticked off the other task of finding a job. We visited the doctor…spent $80NZD to find out my family…
A year to go! Until our estimated fly out date 😊 So the real countdown is on, it’s time to get serious! I’ve got a plan for things to do each month in 2017. Here are some of the major things that need to get done before we leave. Finances – tighten up the budget *We’ve dropped some of the kids extra curricular actives to save some extra money *We have refixed the mortgage at a lower interest rate (what good timing…
Hello again, for this blog I thought it would be interesting to ask each of my family members a few questions about what they’re thinking about our trip… Looking forward to: BK – the first flight Me – living local, last time Brendan and I did the very (expensive) touristy things, we also trained Europe so only really got to see the inner cities, this time I want us to get in the ‘burbs and have had this at the…
Hello again! Let’s get into it! Researching: One down point of being me is my desperate neeeeeeeeed to either know ‘the plan’ or to meticulously plan however the other side of me (the well travelled side), knows this is the most ridiculous thing ever because travel never goes to plan! But still, I’ve spent hours and hours and hours researching for our upcoming trip. Between my iPhone, iPad and BK’s new surface pro computer tablet (which I have recently fallen…
Well here we are. My first blog. I’m not a writer and never thought I’d have a blog, so bear with me… and sorry for the grammatical mistakes in advance! A lot of you will know / heard through the grapevine that we (ok, it’s mostly me), are in the planning stages of a year of backpacking the world with our children. Yes…you read that right, we are pulling our kids out of school for a whole calendar year and…