Here comes bod!

Wahey – I finally got around to booking my flights – I have to go through Charlotte though…but wahey – at least they were cheap.

Yesterday prices were over £450 today – I found flights for just over £350 – ok, cheap is realtive – but these were a steal considering I’m flying out in 11 days.

Carley (my travel agent) made me a very happy bod – she sorted everything out – I’m now leaving from Boston on the 16th – which gives me enough time to mooch around Washington and Philadelphia – woohoo!

Ok, obviously my big trip is going ahead – in the mean time, I’m going to be out and about…

New job is in the middle of nowhere – seriously, even google struggled to find it – Wootton Wawen – so I’ll be mostly there week days for a bit.

Blaze are playing away in Basingstoke on Saturday 19th and are up in Edinburgh on the 26th. I need to get a house sorted, so I may duck out of one of them – but a 16 hour road trip up to Edinburgh for a game and some beers – just has to be done…

Am going to head down to London on the 29th to get passport – it had better be ready, or I’ll just have to cry – will stay overnight – so I can be in the airport bright and early.

Keep an eye on Flickr – will upload photos as and when.

It should have been simple…

Fly out to PDX from London and fly back to London from PDX a few days later…

But then my enthusiasm for exploration and architecture and stuff kicked in and it’s grown a bit.

• 30th – Fly London – Seattle – it means I’ll be missing a hockey game, but my lucky shirt won’t – so it should be ok.
• 1st – Be sleepless in Seattle and get down to Pike place around 4am to catch the city waking up, later just explore – head up the space needle at sunset and then eat and stuff.
• 2nd – Early breakfast – get early train to Portland – check into hostel – get my bearings and meet up with everybody for dinner and what sounds like a fairly interesting evening.
• 3rd – Group brunch – stuff around Portland and then the BnA bash.
• 4th – here’s where it starts to get a bit hazy… either I do a Cinderella and leave the BnA ball before midnight to catch a coach to Detroit – or I hang around for a day and fly out on the 5th.
• 6th – however I get here – I’m going to the Red wings Vs. Devils hockey game.
• 7th – Explore Detroit
• 8th – Get a crazy am bus to Chicago and run around the place like a lunatic.
• 9th – Still Chicago – still running around like a lunatic – get afternoon train to DC
• 10th – Washington DC – more maniacal running aound – then evening train to Boston.
• 11th – Explore Boston then evening train to New York.
• 12th – The city never sleeps, so I won’t either.
• 13th – Spend some time with Moma and come home.

If anything I think I ought to drop DC from my trip – I might be able to fly back from Boston instead of New York – that would probably make more sense.

If I do get the coach then I’ll have completed one of my RTW goals – traverse northern USA.

I’m not going to pretend that I’m going to get a handle on any of the cities I’m visiting – but I’m going to have enough time to shoot a few decent photographs and chat with a few people along the way.

I’ll be back later – it’s just fun to try and do it all at once – although it may kill me…