It's getting a little bit boring putting our location as Adelaide again and again, so we have decided to remedy that. In the past couple of days we have planned a two and a half week adventure that will get us out of Adelaide, through several national parks, through the outback, out of Oz, into Asia and home again.

Plans have been made. Our adventure begins on March 7th, when we pick up a 4-berth campervan in Adelaide and head out of the city through the Flinders Range. Howie managed to pick up a cracking relocation deal for said campervan - we've got to get it to Melbourne by 3pm on March 9th, all linen, cooking equipment and fuel are included, all we have to do is pay a $25 booking fee and then $5 a day for our insurance. We are planning on heading down by the coast through The Coorong, a national park area that is all lagoons and sand-dunes. We'll then be rounding down the coast of Victoria and coming into Melbourne via The Great Ocean Road.

After that, we're on the list for a campervan to Sydney. After we've got to the border of Victoria and New South Wales we'll be going off the beaten track through the outback past Wagga Wagga, through a little town called Wombat and then east to Sydney. On the way we will hopefully be going through the place where Ned Kelly's Last Stand is and driving through some serious kangaroo-strewn outback.

Sydney may be the end of that adventure but it's the beginning of another. We'll be flying out of the harbour city to Kuala Lumpur, where we'll be hot-footing it to our newly added flight - to the seedy urban jungle of Bangkok (country number 4). After, literally, one night in Bangkok we'll be getting the overnight train to Chiang Mai, where we fully intend to spend the next 5 days riding elephants, cuddling tiger cubs, eating a lot of Thai food and taking pictures of temples. Then I fly out on March 22nd, leaving Howie to go it alone for another week, as he becomes a fully-fledged fighting champion, spending a week at a Muay Thai Boxing Camp. I fly back to Blighty on March 23rd, he flies back on March 30th (Malaysia Airline sare, I think, a little bit tired of our shifting flights around by now).

Well, that is the plan. Of course, things could all go awry, but hopefully we will be spending most of March in exotic places, lugging our bags around and getting confused about which time zone we are in.