21st September 2014. D (Darwin) day. Our lives have been in a sort of limbo since we moved out of the house last Wednesday. After several traumas involving fraud and speaking to Ebay in Manila, We finally managed to sell the Renault yesterday. We've been very fortunate staying with lovely friends Rob & Lynette in Fleet who have looked after us wonderfully, but now there's No More Sleeps! We set off for the airport at around 2pm, for the flight at 18.25 - definitely giving ourselves plenty of time for flusters and last-minute faffing There's an air of suppressed panic in the house at the moment, while we re-pack and re-pack, at the same time trying to manage to get some breakfast. I'm writing this in stages. Every so often I go away to do something I've forgotten, then come back and write another sentence. (Bacon's burning - back in a mo). Long mo later. Everything is coming down to 20 kgs of hold luggage and as much as we can cram into our hand luggage!
Some people have suggested that we put an itinerary up on the blog, so that you have an idea of where we will be when, so this is as close as it gets. Fill in your own gaps:
23 Sept: arrive Darwin.
30 Sept: leave Darwin (with motorhome, hopefully!).
4 November: arr. Perth.
?? December arr. Sydney.
Jan-Feb East coast Australia.
21 Feb 2015 leave Sydney, arr. Wellington.
Feb-Mar South island;
Mar-April N island.
21 Apr leave Auckland, arrive LA 15 minutes later!!!!
Apr- early June drive up west coast USA
early June Vancouver Island
June-Sept cross Canada
Sept-Dec East coast USA inc Memphis, Nashville, New Orleans, Florida
Dec - Jan Trinidad?
Jan - Apr Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador (all a bit hazy from about June 2015, to be honest)
Anyway, that's it for now. soon be leaving for the airport. Please post any comments about the blog as i'm quite new to this stuff. Is it too long/short/too much information/not enough? What other stuff should I be writing about?
Hope you arrived safely and have acclimatised now. Looking forward to the next instalment x
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