Dave’s Blog

Well, with 99 days to go we’re slowly getting into a higher gear to be on the move. Currently we are slowly clearing out the apartment and throwing out things by the boxload. It’s good to be planning this far in advance because instead of a mad rush to clean out we’re going to do it nice and slowly. I still need to go through my clothes and the storage cupboard which I think are currently holding a number of boxes destined for the bin.

Rach has slowly been acquiring some travel gear like shoes (Crocs, but the flats not the gay ones) and various other bits and pieces. I’m going to start looking soon. I’m hoping that now that summer is over the various adventure and travel shops in the city here will be doing specials. I’d especially like to get some of those fandangled travel undies (like these) which will help with washing and drying.

We’ve also been hastily calling my family over in Germany trying to tee up some initial times for when we’d like to visit. It seems too early to be organising that, but my family are keen to get us locked in so they can do some planning! At the moment I’m thinking in 2 week blocks which I think is enough to see my family and also have some time to explore the area around on our own so that we don’t get on my family’s nerves.

I think in the next month we’ll start wanting to get into the detail of it all a bit more!

A couple of weeks ago we went to the European travel expo and bought our one way tickets to Frankfurt!

The expo was pretty touristy. All of the major airlines were there as well. The large tour groups like Contiki. I couldn’t think of anything worse than doing a contiki or busabout tour when doing a long term trip to anywhere. There’s so much more to see than the inside of a bus and the sanctioned stops!

So we steered clear of all of the tours a headed to one of the hundred or so travel agents all eagerly awaiting to make bookings and take our money. We found a girl from flight center, told her what we wanted and we ended up with $1200 one way tickets to Frankfurt! A great price for our budget and with a nights layover in Seoul it should break the trip up nicely!

So now we have a date to look forward to – the 10th June 2009! The feeling is so exciting and we both agreed that we couldn’t wait to be there! It’s put an impatience in both of us to get there asap!

So we have a lot to prepare for! Last night we started thinking about how much we would need to chuck out! I’ll talk about that in a later post but for now we are so excited!