Hi.

My name is Brendan, my wife is Linda and we are both Irish, currently living in Dublin.

My wife and I have always envied those young people who had the opportunity to travel after leaving school, collage etc. We ourselves went straight from school into the work place. We always told ourselves that we would make up for this by travelling after our retirements, if we made it that far.

But we often asked ourselves why the pleasures of travel should only apply to the young or the old. What about us in betweens, yep thats right, the middle aged.

Both of us were in the fortunate position of being able to take extended leave from our respective jobs. The more we thought about it, the more we thought "why not". So we put off replacing our car, started saving some money and here we are. Preparing to travel through Asia, Australia, New Zealand and South America for a year or more.

It may well be that we will find the journey too much. We may come scooting back after a short period of time. However, I remember once hearing an observation to the effect that most people on their death beds do not regret the things that did not work out but rather the things they never did but always wanted to do.

It is just the two of us and hopefully we will meet other travellers etc along the way. Still, its nice to have some company so we invite our family, friends, ex-colleagues and why not, the rest of the world, to keep us company on our travels. We cannot guarantee travel writing of Bill Bryson standards but we will do our best.

Slan.

Brendan and Linda.

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