So we’ve spent $1000 on luggage.  Nigel now has a slash proof, chip evading locked up the yinyang daypack.  He will be responsible for the passports and the chipped creditcards and I will be responsible for the medivackit! (I made that word up it’s supposed to sound like a mobile medical evacuation kit which I actually do travel with).

I have a really awesome new daypack and we have both invested in Osprey wheeled backpacks.  Full harness for walking over cobblestones and crappy (literally) pathways yet wheeled for jaunting through the airports.

Nigel and I have worked out that we will buy teeshirts along the way.  Otherwise it will look like our entire trip happens in one day as we are always wearing the same clothes.  I always say that everyone else seems to look so fashionable and lovely in their travel pics whereas I always look the same.  I have decided this will be our signature piece on social media #sameclothesdifferentcountrybutwedontstink.

We are off on the soft launch of our trip this Tuesday.  I’m off to Oz with work and Nigel will join on Friday.  It all starts here for us! Wahooo!