14 December 2009

Oww!

my head hurts.

Seriously. Trying to decide which travel insurance to pick is a pain in the ass. I really, really don’t want to read 74 pages of the policy’s wording for all the different providers! There’s been so much crap to read through we’d planned to get our insurance straight after we booked our flights but we got fed up with the overload of information so ran away from it for a while! Crap, this sucks. Down to two but still, like, I dunno, I don’t care anymore…

Just over four months to go now and I know that’s still loads of time but I wanna stay working as long as I can, to get paid as much as I can so I don’t have to go home early… so I’m doing all the planning now. Our insurance is the second last expensive thing to get organised, booking our tour trek to Machu Picchu will be the last, so it’s all coming together really. YAY :D Brian, hurry up with that new passport!

oooo….think we’re down to one now. I like the look of www.worldnomads.com and Brian agrees. The headache is nearly over. Fingers crossed.

03 December 2009

Drum Roll... the route

Just got myself a lovely picture of my route. Isn’t it beautiful?

rtw route

So the general plan is… fly to Rio in Brazil on the 22nd of April 2010 and over the next two months head west through Brazil, Bolivia and Peru and then south through Chile. Two months is very short for this huge continent but sadly cause of budget we don’t think we can stay any longer.

Next flying from Santiago, Chile to Auckland, New Zealand. Only decided to stay a short ten days here. We had trouble deciding weither to do a six month stay in New Zealand or Australia but in the end Oz won cause of the weather!! We want to get a working holiday visa here so that we can settle for a few months and live in one of the cities and earn a little extra spending money. So we fly into Brisbane, Australia where I’m going to meet my thousands of relatives and then see where Oz takes us.

Just after New Years 2011, we will hopefully head for Bangkok, Thailand where we’ll spend the next two months travelling around south east Asia. Then a flight to Singapore which we’ll explore for a few days and then onto Mumbai, India where we have about a month or a month and a half to explore. Flying home from New Dehli, India.

So thats the jist of the trip. With our ticket we can change our dates but not our destinations so things can still change a bit.