Itinerary

So less of this frivolity...here's our itinerary for the trip :

October 3rd Fly from Heathrow to New York
October 3/4/5/6 Spend time in New York
October 6th Catch train to Philadelphia
October 6th - 11th Stay with Nigel & Fiona (and Roman!) in Philadelphia
October 11th Fly from Newark(NJ) to San Francisco
October 11th - 14th Spend time in San Francisco
October 14th Pick up Motorhome in SF
October 14th - Nov 3rd Journey around California/Nevada visiting Napa valley,
Yosemite, Canyons, Las Vegas and others.
Nov 3rd Arrive Los Angeles, drop off motorhome.
Nov 3rd Fly from Los Angeles to Roratonga (Cook Islands) via
Papeete (Fiji)
Nov 4th - Nov 9th Spend time in Roratonga.
Nov 9th - Nov 10th Fly from Rarotonga to Chjristchurch (NZ) via Aukland.
Nov 10th Christchurch
Nov 11th Pick up hire car, drive to Wanaka.
Nov 11th - Nov 18th RCI accommodation at Wanaka
Nov 18th - Nov 25th ?? Could be biking around for a week in South Island
Nov 25th - Dec 2nd RCI accommodation Queenstown
Dec 2nd - Dec 16th ? Travelling around South Island
Dec 16th - Jan 7th 07 Various in North Island - some time at Paul & Jackie's (Audrey's sister) nr
Wellington, hopefully.
Jan 7th Fly from Aukland to Sydney
Jan 7th to Jan 14th Time in Sydney, staying at Nadia's (Loretta's sister in law) parents B & B
Jan 14th Flight to Ho Chi Min via Singapore
Jan 14th to Feb13th Time spent in Vietnam, hopefully travelling on
re-unification express train from Ho Chi Min
to Hanoi and flying back to Ho Chi Min in time
for....
Feb 13th Flight from Ho Chi Min City to Singapore
Feb 13 - Feb 20 Time in Singapore
Feb 20 2007 Flight from Singapore to Heathrow...Blighty Bound.

Why Leon Trotsky

Why not? It's an original name isn't it?

Anyway the first name's an extension of my own (and a damn fine film) and the surname could be to do with globetrottingsky - couple those two things with my left wing leanings and my prediliction for ice picks and it all begins to make sense.....

Sunday - Day of Rest (yesterday).

So, yesterday really was a day of rest.

Realising the imminence of our eviction from 20 Spinneybrook Way, yesterday spent clearing large items from our garage and doing other sundry physical activities.

So up at 7:30 a.m. - take dogs out for an hour (Ben & Lisa here this weekend).
9:00 a.m. - Load some rubbish into the Volvo (inc. Hostesss [not Rita, the wooden heating trolley thing]).
9:10 a.m. - Go to Ben's old house and load trailer with old bed from his garage and fill remaining space in car with
bags of garden waste.
9:30 a.m. - Ben and me at Raynesway tip, empty trailer & car.
9:55 a.m. - Back at Spinneybrook Way, Load washing machine & Fridge/freezer into trailer/car and take them to
66 Peartree (rented property).
10:30 a.m. - Back at Spinneybrook.Clean carpets in motorhome and move surplus stuff either into loft or into rubbish
bags.
12:00 p.m. - Load old settee from kitchen into trailer, fill rest of car with yet more rubbish - down to Raynesway.
Wear settee as a hat as I move it from trailer to skip at Raynesway.
12:45 p.m. - Down at 157 Sinfin Ave (rented property), to assess how much room there is in the garage to hold
some more items from garage at Spinneybrook.
13:00 p.m. - Load old bathroom suite from Sinfin Avenue into trailer and car (to make more room) and take to
Raynesway.
14:00 p.m. - Back at Spinneybrook. Continue sorting garage.
16:00 p.m. - Clean kitchen floor (dogs have gone) - major job as Alfuie the hairiest animal in the world (after the
Tibetan Yak).
18:00 p.m. - more work.....getting tired now - time for tea, diddle-de-dee.

So, all this was probably nowt compared to the life of a boy chimney sweep, but it's left me tired this morning. Only the garden to do now, oh and pack rucksack for trip, oh and tidy all house, oh and load motorhome, oh and move boxes from garage.....

Still at work - How come?

Friday August 18th. After five o'clock on a Friday and I'm still at work.
How many days to go now - let's ha'e a look - 26 working days, about 43 days in total before we fly to New York. Hope we have something more interesting to report soon......zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

showing Rita how to use blogger

Sitting at home - only 12 days 'til eviction!

So whilst we are waiting for the action to start, take a look at this chap...

Chester the dog - he's not coming with us!

Big Adventure

I've recovered from the Ice-axe incident and am now about to embark on an even bigger adventure.

It's not yet started though - I'm sitting quietly at my desk in Leeds, 33 working days to go, looking forward to this so named Big Adventure.

How come there's no date with this - it must have been Friday August 11th, I think - good day to Blog.