Can you follow us on the map?

Can you follow us on the map?

Sunday, March 27, 2011

What's our Itinerary?

Even though we're trying not to plan too much in advance,we have come up with a pretty adventuresome mix of popular and remote destinations:
Hawaii, Peru, Machu Pichu, Ecuador, Amazon, Galapagos, Brazil, South Africa, Madagascar, Germany, Rome, Greece, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Bangkok, Mongolia, Beijing, Auckland, Fiji...then home again! . . . this has only taken 4 weeks staying awake until midnight on the computer and phone to United Airlines every night to figure out. Ha!
What do you think? Any travel tips or must sees you know about?

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Planning...Dream Makers!

Can you believe we have saved over 800,000 United Airlines miles in the last 20 years? It's incredible that we have enough for 3 Round the World tickets that are 200k miles each. As long as we fly in one direction, cross each ocean only once, and keep it to 5 major stopovers; it's ALL FREE!!  Well, not FREE actually because, in order to make this Around the World DREAM come true, we have also been saving and saving and saving a little stash of money in a jar since we were 23 years old. So now, finally, at 43 years old we can DO IT! Hey, waiting until 43 is a lot better than waiting until 83, and then missing the trip altogether.  DREAM MAKER baby! Don't ever lose your focus...