Why work Rose and I are officially unemployed and homeless. Yet everyone envies us. Why? We're off to see the world. Logistics The logistics of leaving home for a year are mind-boggling. US Health Insurance is not valid overseas. Travel Insurance is not valid in US. Bills need to be paid. It goes on and on. To learn more, I spent time at ThornTree "Gap Year" Forum at LonelyPlanet.com (to get destination advise), and on FlyerTalk.com "Airline Alliance" forums (to get transportation advice). Basically, choice came down to "pay as you go" airfare (too expensive [View Full Entry]

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I'm not sure which is more challenging.. living the dream, or writing about it. I'll try: ...It reverses. As this huge powerhouse virgin atlantic boeing 747 prepares for lift off, so do I. And as I stare out of the window, with tear stained cheeks, I fly out of LHR with the utmost conviction that this journey holds more than I imagine possible... ...As the plane made it's descent through the clouds, I caught my first sight of the Atlantic ocean - a vast, dark and dangerous blue, carpeting the earth's surface.. and then.. land. The US of A. Landing at [View Full Entry]

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Some selected new photos!! Call me, I'm back... [View Full Entry]

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New York is pretty great. We've been doing heaps of stuff.......i think there is sooo much stuff to do that i might not be enjoying it as much because its just so much. Either that or I have been travelling for too long and have already seen so much other stuff. We got these passes to do pretty much every touristy thing in New York so we have been maxing it out and doing a lot. Went to the MET art museum. There was so many famous paintings and ancient arts and crafts, it was like an art textbook but in [View Full Entry]

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I'm not packed yet and the hours are ticking away. Jill is out buying a new cell phone she wont be able to use for the week. Peter is running around looking for Tivas and Mark seems to be the only one of us who is calm and ready... I've done my last Tiki Tan session and last trip to Target. Tomorrow, we meet at Newark Airport. Jill and I drive up at 5 am and Mark and Peter coming in from the city by rail. We arrive in San Jose at around 11am. And the adventure begins... [View Full Entry]

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It's going to be almost 60 degrees today. Isn't it nice the weather is getting us ready for the equator? The up side of global warming. Soon the Ticos will be moving to Asbury. I know one person on a lake that would be cheering... Got my hair cut and the prerequisite gay mans wax yesterday. I’m getting looks when I tell people WHERE I am going and WHO I am traveling with.... The look of a prisoner as he watches his fellow inmate escape from Sing Sing... Dan excerp from email from Jill Ahhh yes... I too got the prerequisite [View Full Entry]

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Lynfielders, In this episode, we see Lynfield hero, Aaron Jacobsen, travel from his current residence in London to visit his sister, Hannah, and fellow traveller, Krystel Houghton, in New York. There was a fun attack. Enjoy, Aaron [View Full Entry]

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Hi all, Well the blog is a bit late, but better late than never aye? So... after spending Xmas up in Newcastle with Kristin's sister Ann, and the boys, we finally got on the plane on the 28th bound for NYC. On arriving in NYC at around 11pm local time, we headed straight for the hotel. The hotel is in a fantastic position, right on the park on the upper west side. Unfortunately it would seem that an arm and a leg doesn't buy you much in Manhatten so we were greeted with a room barely big enough to hold the [View Full Entry]

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-------------------------------------------------------------- FOR THE FULL PHOTO ALBUM, PLEASE... CLICK HERE -------------------------------------------------------------- What a fun time... I flew down to NYC to meet up with my brother (Ben), Sister (Sarah), her boyfriend (Udi) and my father for dinner. We ate at an amazing Asian restaurant known for their Asian "Street Food" style... it was so good! Right before dinner, we [View Full Entry]

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It's definitely THAT time of year. The bells are ringing (the random Santas on street corners who stand there with buckets are the main proponents of these), the children are singing (actually, crying their eyes out in shops is probably more accurate) and everyone else is spending far more than they ought to, anywhere they can! Everyone with a screen name on MSN has changed it to something "comically festive" (guilty), and the everyone starts paying each other a lot more attention at work, just in case you end up as their secret santa. HAPPY HOLIDAYS, THE AMERICAN WAY! Actually it [View Full Entry]

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