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Category Archive: Trip Planning

Fast-paced travel just isn’t our style!

You know what? Short trips can totally suck. Sure, the experiences you have are still fantastic, but believe us when we say that there’s also a lot to hate about shorter holidays! We’ve written previously about why we’ve chosen long-term […]

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Backpack vs. suitcase? Our decision.

With 85 days until our round-the-world adventure, each day of planning and pre-trip preparation is becoming more and more important. With that in mind, we recently journeyed to the nearby outdoor supplies store determined to find ourselves some backpacks for […]

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RTW Destination #1: Hawaii

Decisions. It seems like we’ve been making plenty of them lately for our round-the-world adventure but that’s just part of the fun, right? Firstly we had to choose between Fiji or Hawaii as to which would be the first stop […]

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I get to see the spectacular Petronas Towers for a second time!

Revisting Kuala Lumpur

As I write this post from a hotel room in Surigao in the Philippines, the past few weeks have definitely been quite the rollercoaster ride. The reason we’re currently on this week-long venture through Singapore and the Philippines was to […]

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The emptiest feeling I’ve ever had

For those of you who have been following the blog for a while now, you probably know that our plan was to fly to Hawaii in 4 months time and then most likely onwards to Vancouver and beyond. After exploring […]

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Shit just got real!

After a hell of a lot of deliberation, the dilemma we faced a few weeks ago when we were trying to decide between Fiji and Hawaii as a starting point for our round-the-world adventure has now been sorted. In 170 days from today on Tuesday 26 July 2011, we’ll be flying with Jetstar from Sydney to Honolulu on a one-way ticket and won’t be looking back!

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Announcing Frugal February

With an estimated 6 months until our round-the-world trip kicks off, we’re 45% of the way to our savings target and currently tracking behind where we want to be at this stage. Concerned, we did some calculations and realized that […]

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Fijian Beach Huts?

Fiji or Hawaii? Help us decide!

While researching the flights that were supposed to kick-off our around-the-world adventure, we made an alarming discovery. One-way tickets can be more expensive than return fares! After sharing this with our Facebook community, we soon found that we weren’t the only ones […]

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