Today is the morning of day 3 of our cross-country roadtrip. Over the past two days we have stopped in with several family and friends including my cousins Jeremy and Christy in Asheville, North Carolina, my cousins David and Carol in Cleveland, TN, and Katie’s friend Kerri in Knoxville, TN, and Rebekah in Nashville, TN. [...]
We’ve finally started to make real plans! What a relief! We’ve made plans to go out west (as Dan already said in a previous post), but the even bigger news is that we booked our ticket to go overseas! It has taken a lot of researching, reading, and planning, but we finally made a decision [...]
The first trip of the year is officially happening starting this Friday! Katie and I have reserved a rental car with unlimited miles and will be heading west toward New Mexico. Along the way, we plan to stop with family and friends across the country, do a little tent camping if the weather obliges, and [...]
As I write this, the New Zealand Dollar is at .49 in US Dollars. That is the lowest since 2003 and down from .80 just a year ago (a decline of nearly 40%). As the dollar has continued to improve from its weak point a few months ago, our traveling dollar is now back to [...]
While our plan for our trip does seem to change every few days, I feel like we are narrowing down our options. After chatting with multiple travel agents in both the US and London today, it looks like the following makes a lot of sense: London – Hong Kong – Bangkok overland to Singapore – [...]