Things to Buy (#4)

I need to buy a warm winter coat that is also incredibly stylish to get me through the English winter which will probably be the only cold winter I have ever experienced. I need to buy many pairs of gorgeous high heels including wedges and some boots. I intend to be stylish. I need to buy many many scarves including a giant wooly scarf that reaches to my toes and some dainty scarves that do little to stop the chill but look fabulous. I need to buy a small compact handbag for when I'm out and about and also a ginormous tote for when I go shopping.

Almost there!

There are a few milestones almost reached:

Me and Kirby have almost saved $1000 in our money jar

It's almost time for the 2 year countdown to begin on our big America trip

Vic is moving to Cambodia soon, and we'll be following her there for a visit

Vic is also almost home from her trip to England and I'll almost have all the Cath Kidston goodies she bought me

It's almost the end of the Sony Make.Believe competition and I find out if I've won a trip to Berlin and Tokyo


Almost, almost, almost... I just have to keep it in my head that I have to keep saving!

Places to Visit (#14)

© Jeff R. Clow

Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. I believe I've heard of this place before but I can say I've never seen a picture of it that is as amazing as this one! Sometimes I think I just want to go to places so I can witness pictures in real life, and have the possibility of taking something half as good. This picture is just phenomenal. 

Places to Visit (#13)

It seems that visiting bookstores and libraries is going to be part of my trip in many places along the way. This is El Ateneo in Buenos Aires, it used to be a theatre and now it's a bookstore. So I'd prefer to own this place as my own personal library, but I'd be pretty happy to visit it as a bookstore as well. Hopefully we'll be going through Buenos Aires. As long as our plans with our round the world tickets work out we'll definitely be stopping in here. 

Places to Visit (#12)

 

Yes the photo on the left may look like a gorgeous European forest and yes the photo on the right may look like a Bison which you would usually associate with roaming the North American wilderness... But here comes the ultimate combination ever (unless you include combining Bison with flying ala the Sky Bison) POLISH BISON! Okay so they are technically European Bison, but these ones are found in Poland in the Bialowieża Forest. It is a primeval forest, which I understand has nothing to do with dinosaurs, but sounds like it has something to do with dinosaurs: thus making it all the more awesome. 

We will be going here on our trip through Poland.

Things to Do (#5)

I'd love to go up in a hot air balloon. I've always wanted to do it, but I figured that the place that you go up in has to be pretty special for it to really be worth it. I wanted to do it in Burma, because I think it would be amazing floating above all of those shrines, but I never got the chance. I'd like to be able to tick this one off on my trip and so currently there are two places that I think it would be pretty cool. Hawaii and the Grand Canyon. As far as I'm aware everyone else is scared of heights, so it could be a bit of an effort to convince anyone to go with me, but it would be so amazing that I really hope at least one of them will. 

Asia

So I just booked a trip to travel with Kirby to Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam in February. It deviates from the whole America trip and uses up funds that could be used towards that. But I'm so excited about it. My sister has just got a job with Australian Immigration in Cambodia and will be moving there for a year, so it is a trip to visit her but also a chance to show Kirby the place where I really remember growing up.

It will be a short trip as the amazingly cheap flights had only a very short window, but in just over two weeks we'll be able to see Bangkok, Angkor Wat, Phnom Penh, Hanoi and Sapa. I'm so excited about revisitng Sapa and Cambodia as they are two places I missed on my last Asian trip in 2007. I always love Bangkok and Hanoi so I can't wait to go back there and see how things have changed again. I'm really hoping the best for Bangkok and that Thailand sorts out its problems soon. I'm a little sad about probably not being able to fit in any of Ho Chi Minh City, but it's such a short trip that it just isn't likely to be possible.

Now all that's needed is to pay my dad back for the flights and sort out accommodation.