31 Days To Go!!!

We had a lovely Christmas with Jim's family--that is, until we broke the news to them of our trip!
Definitely what we are embarking on is not everyone's cup of tea, but those who know us really shouldn't be too surprised and have some faith in our judgment. Hopefully they'll get over it

Merry Christmas!

Our last one at home for a couple of years.

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

Three Months To Go

With 3 months to go, here's where we're at:

•  Everything checked off the previous To-Do List!



Eddie & Yasmine

• House to be listed For Rent at the end of Nov
• Citizenship Ceremony: Nov 10
• Passport Applications completed and waiting to be submitted after 10 Nov
• Appointment to see Solicitor re Wills:  today
• Excess toys sold at Toy Sale:  net $71.00
• Too-small clothing culled, to be given away
• New home found for Eddie
   

•  New To-Do List for November:

• Get passport pics for Jim, Maddy & Yasmine

• Research Visa Requirements for all countries to be visited (9)

•  Vaccination Update:

• The girls have prescriptions for TYPHERIX (Typhoid) and HAVRIX JR (Hep A).  They'll get the Hep A jab the day before we leave and we'll get our TWINRIX then too so that we can all time the second jab to be received in Bangkok at the end of Feb, thus saving us money.

• We're going to get our DUKORAL (cholera) in Bangkok too--much cheaper.

• I received my BOOSTRIX and TYPHIM IV jabs today--so far, I have very sore arms :(

Travel Vaccination Update

Just spent the past 2hrs trolling through the LP Online Thorn Tree Forum on ‘Health’—such great and useful info that I wished I’d read yesterday BEFORE I filled the prescriptions today for some of our travel vaccinations!!!  Was referred to 2 highly recommended and reputable clinics in Bangkok (one of them is the Red Cross) that charge half to a third of what I just paid today :( But having said that, we