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 […]
Category Archive: Trip Planning
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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!
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 […]
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 […]