9 Days to Go!!

So we've got our tickets to Australia. We'll be headed there on January 2nd. Unfortunately we will be spending very little time there. Much less than we wanted to, but it's just too expensive to stay there for very long. With much sadness we're going to cut out The Great Barrier Reef. I know, people are going to give us a lot of guff (yes, I said guff) for that, but it is what it is. We'll fly into Brisbane and leave out of Sydney just 12 days later. We'll fly into Bangkok. Yeah. From there our South East Asia travels will be much more open. We'll just go where we feel, when we feel it.

In New Zealand we'll get to be somewhat free. We contacted the Top 10 camp grounds and they pretty much never fill up their tent site area, so we don't need to reserve ahead of time any tent sites. The only for sure date we have is crossing from the North to the South on the ferry on December 20th. We've put in a request for glacier walking on the Franz Josef Glacier for December 28th, but haven't gotten a response back. Cross your fingers. We're pretty flexible though. I'm sure they can squeeze us in somewhere. We're thinking of spending Christmas Eve on the beach. Why not? It'll be a nice change from our usual Christmas's. We'll at least make sure we get a good bottle of wine from one of the wineries we visit. That will be our little celebration. Probably some of the same on New Years as well.

As for our current lives, we're both working this week. Chris actually is working through next Monday. I'm only subbing through this Wednesday, then my job will be to tie up any loose ends we might have but we feel pretty well prepared. It still doesn't feel totally real. We both go through our days feeling pretty much the same, with little twinges of excitement here and there. I think it won't feel real until we're actually on a plane headed across the Pacific. That's how it's been for my last travel experiences as well.

Like I said, I'll get Chris on this thing sooner or later. Hopefully the next entry will be him. His writing skills are probably better than mine and perhaps a bit more interesting. But the stories should get more interesting once we get on the road. Until next time.