rtw with lucy

After enduring the 17 hours of plane flight we are a little groggy, but some iced coffee in Brisbane solved that. We are safe, and enjoying ourselves. We have come along a little mishap of losing our luggage, but the ticket agents assured us that we would have them by tomorrow afternoon. More later….
* Favorite quote of the day- “no worries, mate”
-Signing out, Erin S.

Well, here we are, six days from departure, and I’m barely dragging myself along. I have worked my tail off for these last 9 months or so. Has it really been 9 months? Wow, I guess this trip will be our baby.

I had a chance to sit down tonight and think about what all has had to happen to get to this point. Right now, we are homeless and unemployed, and feel like we’re in limbo. It is a different kind of feeling, and not one I can easily explain, except that it is probably a lot like the feeling you get when you’ve just graduated from high school. All that hard work is over, and the next phase of your life has not yet begun, but the possibilities are endless. You know it’s not all going to be wonderful and exciting, and yet you hope that most of it will be. I know that some full days will probably be spent waiting for something like a late plane, or a visa extension. That is the nature of long term traveling, and hopefully we’ll deal with it better than if we only had a two week vacation.

I must say that we have worked hard to sell a house and close out this part of our life, and said good bye to some wonderful friends. We’ve gotten rid of at least half of our stuff, and packed away what was left in storage bins and locked them away in a shed. We’ve gotten shots, and made arrangements with the bank, and sold our cars. We bought trip insurance, one way tickets to Brisbane Australia, and a car for when we get there. Whew, we almost missed getting the girls’ glasses in time, but they did come in this week, for which we are grateful, but when I think back on all that I am truly amazed and grateful that it ran as smoothly as it did. It’s not the year of travel that frightens me, it’s the thought that I may have failed to take everything into account, but as far as I can tell right now, it is all taken care of. It remains to be seen whether I am correct in that line of thinking!

As the only teenager going on this trip, I have had to go to great lengths to persuade my mother of the importance of fashion. My advice was ignored. So, after our fifth trip shopping, I was ... [Continue reading this entry]