For all of you out there wondering what the heck we are doing … here it is (kind of). As previously mentioned we have flights into a continent and out again and this is how it looks.

1. Brisbane to Jakarta via Sydney on 4th February 2011 – yippee. Spend this time with my cousin and his family. Need to fly out about 14th February so we don’t overstay our welcome!  Need to...

Karlee is our 3 legged wonder dog who will be 13 years old when we leave in February.  My parents are the willing and able babysitters for the 12 months that we are travelling.  She will be sadly missed and we dearly hope that she is well in our absence.  Physically she is very well, despite having cancer and her leg amputated at 9 months of age.  I do worry that she will...

Me, pushing 2 empty containers down the hallway to the study.

Five year old Finn, Patrick’s friend, sticks his head out of the room and asks “What are they for?”.

My reply, “Oh, just to pack stuff in”.

Finn turns to Patrick, “What is she packing stuff for?”

Patrick announces matter of factly, “Because we are going round the world”.

Finn declares, “You’re lucky!”

Patrick...

When searching for RTW family blogs, I happened across the website of the Higham Family – a family of four from San Francisco.  Apart from the great list of books they compiled for their daughter to read; John made their own story of RTW travel into a book titled ‘360 Degrees Longitude’.  The book wasn’t available in Australia when I went searching so during my recent USA...

We finally had the chance to meet with our travel agent and book some flights – hooray. Two hours later we were the proud owners of a basic itinerary. Enough flights to get us out of Australia, into one continent; out of it and into the next.  There are big gaps of time and space in the middle for flexibility and to take advantage of cheap airfares in Asia, in...

With now less than 3 months until we leave the country, things are hotting up around here.  Second garage sale of the century is booked for Saturday morning with my trusty assistant – Mum. 

Should have a travel itinerary soon and glad to see we have inadvertantly followed the advice of Mummy T:

Invested in a Panasonic Lumix TZ10 in September.  Happy with my purchase after much research. Didn’t want anything too big and fancy; just something that could take a great photo the majority of the time. The camera accompanied me to America for my two weeks away and has performed nicely so far. I am still yet to fully understand how to work the thing!

As previously mentioned, Harris and Patrick were proud and brave recipients of their TB vaccinations a few months ago.  Following my return from the US we had our first travel medicine appointment with a local travel clinic to prepare for our big adventure.  I already knew that we would most likely leave with at least one jab each however Patrick was none the wiser as to...

I have just returned from a 2 week trip to the USA.  Had a great time at the American School Health Association conference in Kansas City, Missouri. If you ever add KC to your itinerary then check out the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum – it was fantastic.  Then I went onto Cincinnati Ohio to catch up with friends. Completed the ‘Scared Stiff’ 5km charity run in the fabulous time...

In just two sleeps I will be getting on a plane bound for Kansas City, Missouri. Yes, a destination high on everyone’s list of places to go; closely followed by Cincinnati and Strongsville, Ohio.  I am attending the American School Health Association conference – exciting stuff if that is what you are into …. and I am.  Can’t wait to catch up with my Ohioan (is that a...