The countdown has now started in ernest, less than a month before we are leaving our home and family again. On March 30th we are flying to Los Angeles via Brisbane, we will then get an internal flight to St Louis to see our friend and be reunited with our bike once again. We have already booked the bike in at Gateway BMW to have some work done to it and then we will be off and heading south to hopefully find some warm weather, it has been bitterly cold in St Louis.
As before our pending departure brings mixed emotions, there is always so much to do and so much we want to do before we leave home, but the call of the road is still very strong and as I think I have said before, if you sit waiting for the right time to go, you will never go. Fortunately we have a great team of people and family looking after our interests while we are away.
We have done just about everything we can in preparation for our continuation, as I said we have the bike booked in for some work, we have bought some new riding shorts, a new mattress, and some spares for our helmet camera and had them sent to our friend in St Louis. Over here we have bought a couple of new helmets and Julie a new jacket, thank you to Auto Classic for helping with these items. We have also arranged insurance for the bike, our visas and booked our flights, all things being equal we are fairly well set. We have also found shipping that can take the bike from Los Angeles to Auckland New Zealand, this is planned to happen at the end of September when we have to leave the US, we can only get a six month visa. So this year we hope that we can visit Florida before making our way west across the bottom of America to Las Vegas before turning north and following the Rockies into Canada and then making our way to Alaska, we then hope to head down the west coast all the way to San Diego, we may even venture down to Baja if we have time, six months we go by too quickly we are sure. From America we will head to New Zealand where we hope to spend a couple of months and our daughter and son-in-law hope to bring our granddaughter with them to spend Christmas with us. It is all very exciting and we hope that this year we are able to travel with a bit more ease and less worry. To all our readers, we would like to ask that you write a comment or message so that we know you are reading and that our writings are being read.