Our plans....

This is the first post of many to come. I am setting out on an eight month adventure with my friend Devon to New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, and Europe. We leave in January and come back in August of 2011. I will be blogging weekly about our adventures. I am starting blogging a little early for several reasons. First I am way too excited not to get this blog going, second I thought it would be best to document the whole process (booking the tickets and all). We have looked though a whopping 50 pounds of tour books to see where we want to go and whether we want to go on some or not. We will fly into New Zealand first but we don't know to tour or not to tour the two islands (ie travel on our own). Then we will jump the water to Australia. We plan on going up the east coast by bus then flying from Darwin to Alice Springs then to Perth then to Adelaide. After that we jet off to Fiji for a few days to unwind. We have narrowed down some other choices, which you will have to read about in future posts.

We are booking our trip in the next week. Booking our trip has been filled with excitment, anxiety and a bit of frustration. We have looked online and gone to two travel agents. Now I sit on my couch wishing I could tap my red socks together and suddenly be one week from now, when I will have the tickets in my hands! In the mean time I will plug through school, counting the days until we leave...125!