We sat down on thursday night and thrashed out where we wanted to go and the dates... original we had had plans to go to Peru, but after visiting Trailfinders a second time a couple of weeks ago we had decided to knock this on the head due to expense.. so the plan was at that point:

Thailand (3 weeks), Australia (3 weeks), Fiji (1 week), New Zealand (4 weeks) and Japan (1 week)...

However, when we went to Trailfinders today and looked at routes and prices, it was going to push us way over budget to fit in Japan also, so I'm afraid we had to re-think and decided to come back via LA. If you want to have a look at out path goto the following link:

http://www.statravelblogs.com/joanddave/map

Getting excited now that we've got the flights booked.... need to start sorting everything else out.... vaccines, campervan, visa's, passport, insurance.... :-)