The itinerary is now set, flights and US car hire bought, thanks to the help of Ben Charalambous at Round the World Experts (http://www.roundtheworldexperts.co.uk/). The plan is: 18 Aug 2011 - 4 Days in New York before picking up a hire car 17 Days to drive across the US, hopefully visiting some friends along the way, before leaving from Los Angeles 4 Weeks in Fiji 3 Weeks in Christchurch, New Zealand (just in time for the knock-out stages of the 2011 Rugb...

So I'm still in the planning stage for my trip. I've got a few first-cut itineraries, my preferred one I've loaded on to this blog site. I need to match this to a rail trip in India. When I've got these aligned, I can start spending some money to book things - at which point this all becomes Very Real . One disappointment is that these round-the-world tickets don't seem to like Iceland! I do want to see Iceland at some point, but I may have to do that as a s...