As they say in Horse Racing – “They’re Off”! Yes, today is the start of our 2014 vacation. Today was mostly devoted to the final packing, getting to the airport, and flying almost half way around the world. The past few weeks have been to spent planning all the details, including deciding what clothes to bring with us (northern Australia should still be fairly warm but southern New Zealand might get kind of cool, although nothing like St Louis). We have 3 suitcases (comfortably less than 50 pounds each) and 2 carry bags. Anyway, we have packed what we think will be the right things - we can probably buy/wear some souvenir clothes along the way if we have miscalculated. But the stress and worry really began several days ago. It turned extremely cold on Saturday
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