After the drama & uncertainty of last week we're finally on our way , almost lol Thanks to Graham for getting up at sparrows to get us here. We're enjoying the luxury of the QANTAS lounge - thanks Jason! Delicious coffee & all the breakfast goodies. Now all I need to do is convince Pete because we didnt sleep last night it's late not early so I can hit the full open free bar lol Not long now til we board so think ill grab another coffee. LA here we co...

Two days of frantically dashing from Dr to scan to Dr to specialist & more scans. Then 2 days after the initial Dr's appointment Pete's had surgery to remove a kidney stone.If that'd flared up in the USA we'd be up for huge hospital fees as I'm sure the insurance co would count it as pre-existing given he had one last year. The pic is the offending stone lol The blog won't let me save without a pic, any pic so this time, that's what you get :-)

It's less than a week now until we start out on our two month journey to the USA, Canada & the Caribbean. This blog will serve as a travel diary, a record for us to look back on in the years ahead and also as a way for those friends and family who are interested in doing so to check in on what we're up to. Six days from now we will be leaving Brisbane, heading for our first stop in LA. Our intention (note intention lol) is to do daily updates which may be w...