Hi All
Well…after talking about it in the abstract for a number of months, Bec and I have made the decision to pack-up the kids and travel Australia as a family for 12 months starting January 2014.
Before we could commit ourselves we had to have some certainty of employment on our return, and as it happens it looks like both of us will have jobs to come back to with our current employers. So working on the belief that you’re a long time dead, and trying to live without regret, we've decided to put our professional lives on hold and take the opportunity while we can (the eldest starts Secondary School in 2015).
It’s scary and exciting and there is a hell of a lot of planning and preparation ahead; this post will act as a place holder for all the questions and comments we’ll have over the next 7 months.
We've broken the planning into groups and so far we have:
Vehicle
Trailer
Communications
Equipment
Trip Budget
Home Admin
Food
Education
Clothing
Itinerary
Each of these groups will be broken into ‘tasks’ which will help with the planning, budgeting, prioritising etc.
I’ll have plenty of questions on all of the above (and more) over the next 6 months and will post them in the appropriate sub-forums and link them back to here. We all know what a great resource MySwag is, so both here and Pradopoint will bear the brunt of my queries.
So there we go, let the fun begin…
