One trip to Trailfinders in the snow, one phonecall and a vast sum of money later and we are the proud owners of five round-the-world tickets.

We leave London on 1st November on a Virgin flight arriving in LA about 11 hours later. I checked they had seat back TVs.

We have bought an 'Escapade' round the world ticket which uses Virgin, Singapore Airlines and Air New Zealand. We've bought a separate ticket from LA to Hawaii as that route isn't covered by these airlines. It's on United, an airline I'm not keen on. Last time I flew with them the seat was broken and I was made to sit in the smoking section. On a thirteen hour flight. Owen from Trailfinders assures me they've improved.

After Hawaii, we fly to Auckland, then into Sydney and out of Perth in Western Australia, to Singapore, then Tokyo and finally back to London at the end of July 2011. We'll fill in the middle bits ourselves with flights with local low cost airlines and lots and lots of trains, buses and cars.

We've taken out insurance with World Nomads. We are now free to jet ski, bungee jump and clay pigeon shoot without a care. It also covers the boring stuff we hopefully won't have to use.

The plan is coming together.

Sounds good. I've just been looking at prices/flights for us and keep getting so daunted by it all!
I'm tempted to just book a flight to Sydney and see what happens next (maybe I should dicuss it with my husband first).

Smoking section on United- must've been a long time ago! (Though sorry to report yeah they still suck, most American airlines do.)

Congrats on the ticket purchase, it's such an exciting step! No turning back now.

well, after posting to this thread, I looked up the flights and we've booked. One way tickets to Sydney. just got to work out what happens next.
we stop over in HK, might check out disney there, the girls will be 3 & nearly 6, so perfect age for disney.

How exciting, when do you go? We've got a week in Disneyland LA to start our trip...

wallop wrote:How exciting, when do you go? We've got a week in Disneyland LA to start our trip...

Great start to your trip.
We leave Heathrow on the 13th September.
I keep getting the "OMG what have we done feelings" -to go, we need to start doing the organisation stuff instead of the thinking about it.
Our blog is nearly ready to go, we've got a trial run at Easter - off to Chicago, Wisconsin & Minnesota - so if we can have fun there, we'll find some fun in the sun (hopefully!)

Excellent! Get your blog up and running so I can read it and find out where you're going...
I'm bogged down in the 'what do we do about national insurance?' stage and sorting out the house for rental and all those other boring things. But just sometimes, I get properly excited and think, this time in 8 months or this time next year, we'll be doing such and such. Our children are getting excited too, what about yours?