Another tale of the internet turning out to be quite a useful tool, although in this case, the person on the other end of the email did not need to be berated to receive something more than expected. In fact, it came as a rather large surprise to us. We are members of the Friends [...]

A nice short update today, which should make a few of you sigh in relief that it’s not another long-winded ramble. I was rather stunned today to find out that with all my expertise in the growing of grass, I was still not near the top of the food chain when it came to pricing. [...]

The tickets are booked. The tickets are finalised. The tickets are paid for. There’s no going back now. The final itinerary went through more changes than a month-old baby, and was only slightly more difficult to work out than who won the US Presidential elections. However, the finalised itinerary is now as follows: Melbourne – [...]

After all the dealings and hassles with the tickets, we’re going to need to have a break. We thought we’d figured it out, and were going to be able to include Anchorage, Alaska in the itinerary, since we had extra sectors in North America left, but that did not work because none of the airlines [...]

In the last update, I neglected to mention a few things that were important, since they were involved with purchasing the ticket. Firstly, the price of the ticket was given in AUD, not USD. I am still working in AUD, and not quite sure what will happen after several months of dealing with USD, I [...]