Well it's only one day until we depart and we are making the final preparations. Tony has managed to pack everything into his backpack with only two attempts and his bag is considerably smaller than mine! I have also managed to pack in two attempts but I have a horrible feeling everything will be out and all over the floor at least once more before we leave on Friday morning. I have been horrified by how little I can get into my bag and would like to apologise ...

Hi Everyone With only 5 weeks to go until we begin our journey we thought it would be useful to test that the blog thing works and to let you kwow where we are going. Our excellent adventure begins on the 5th October 2007 when we fly to New York. We plan on doing a brief tour of the east coast up to Niagra Falls and then across to Chicago. When we get to Chicago we plan on watching LA Galaxy against Chicago Fire, vistiting Fox River (thats one for you Prison ...