I Guess We Will Be Seeing A Lot Of These

Our Mature Gap Year Approaches and I’m getting Stressed

We are getting stressed as we realize the day of our departure is getting near. The house still seems to be full to over flowing even though we are doing constant runs to the post office to deliver the mountain of goods sold on ebay.

I made a big decision to sell my selection of T-shirts from the casinos and other attractions in Las Vegas, I have actually found this quite liberating. It’s very strange my urge to have the T-shirt so that everybody can see that I have ‘been there’ I put it down to not actually going on a real holiday until I was 23 years old and that was my first honeymoon. My second with Sofia my wonderful present and last wife was to Venice via the Simplon Orient Express a wedding present from my Father in Law and was totally amazing and has led to a love affair with Venice and travel ever since.

I am also preparing for life without 24 hour access to the Internet that’s going to be strange as I have been on-line since 1995 and really do spend a large portion of my life on the net. I am wondering how we are going to move around the various countries – we cannot just spend unlimited sums of money hiring cars big enough to carry the four of us, plus all the baggage, this also means lots of taxi’s won’t be large enough.

I originally planned to hire a camper van for Australia, New Zealand and America, but I guess having looked at the costs of that option, we may have to try something else!

It’s all going to be an amazing time of ever changing plans, highs and lows, amazing sights and some dismal hotels – But over all it should still be a grand adventure.