8 Weeks to Go...

...and we (I) am exhausted!  Have been madly packing up the house these past few days, boxing up the clutter and actually seeing clear space on the horizontal surfaces in the house!  It was much easier said than done though as it really wasn't as simple as sweeping it all in a box, or the bin.  Everything needed to be sorted first, its proper home found, THEN

The Price To Pay For Cheap Airfares

Another AirAsia sale his morning so Jim and I set the alarm to get up at 4am (sale started at 3am) in hopes of nabbing some cheap airfares, only to encounter problems with their server for the next 1.5hrs.  Arghhh.  But alas, we were finally able to make some bookings. 

Update on Visa Requirements

Its a mixed result on the topic of visa requirements for the countries that we are planning to visit.  On the upside, about half of them will not required us to pay or obtain any visas in advance.  But on the down side, it looks like we'll have to fork out a bit of money for the visas that we do need to get, plus