We’ll be travelling around the world from May to November 2013. Here’s a rough outline of our route:
ASIA – May 10-June 20
Route: Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam (then back to Thailand to fly out of Bangkok).
UK/EUROPE – June 20- September 22
Route: London, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, (maybe a day in Switzerland), Italy, Greece, France, then back to London. We also have three days in Iceland after London.
We might try to make it to Ireland for a couple of days, and also, I’d like to visit Spain and Portugal but gosh, they’re so far away. Ditto Russia. Much as I want to see St Petersburg, visas are said to be a nightmare and also ridiculously expensive – hundreds each, from what I can tell.
AMERICA/CANADA – September 22- November 5
Route: Very, very fluid. The rough plan is to spend a few days in NYC, then rent a car, drive up through Boston and Vermont to Montreal/Toronto, then back into the US (possibly via Chicago, though it’s quite far, or else around Niagara Falls and through New York) and cross from east to west. Key stops: DC, New Orleans, the Grand Canyon, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Then we fly home with an overnight stop in Tahiti.
Below is my original travel bucket list from 2009. Click on images for the source.
Staycation on Waiheke (fixated on the idea ever since seeing these packages)
Stay in a spa room at the Duxton Hotel
Camp by the Kai Iwi Lakes
Road trip of the South Island
Skiing in Queenstown
Visit a Pacific Island
Go on a cruise
See Las Vegas
Visit the Grand Canyon
Eat Cajun food in Louisiana and cheese steak in Philly
Live it up in London
Gorge and sight-see in Italy
Ditto for France
a trip back to Malaysia (and maybe Singapore) for eating and shopping
The Whitsundays / Great Barrier Reef
Gold Coast (theme parks!!!)