Introduction to the Blog

Hi friends and family,

Just wanted to let you know that we're heading off around the world this winter and that we sorted and paid for all our flights yesterday.

The complete Itinerary is:

Sydney to Tokyo on QF 25 (a Boeing 747-400) departing Sunday, June 2 arriving the following morning. Our Flight Duration is 9 hours 25 minutes

We will meet Doug, Louise and Lou's sister Vivienne in Haneda Airport spending 4 nights in Tokyo and then off with them to see parts of north east Honshu incl. Hachinohe, Lake Towada, Hirosaki, Morioka, Hanamaki and finally back to Tokyo.

Tokyo to London via Frankfurt on LH 920 (a Boeing 747-8 and an Airbus A320neo) departing Sunday, June 16 and arriving the same day. We have a short stopover to change aircraft at Frankfurt. Our Flight Durations are 11 hours 40 minutes and 1 hour 40 minutes.

We'll spend time with family (Glenn and David) and visit more of London for nearly a week then travel to Rugby by train to spend 14 nights on a narrowboat on the canals of the English Midlands (with our friends Anne and Steve and also our extra crew members Trevor for a couple of days in the first week and Glenn and David hopefully for three to four days during the second week (see http://bit.ly/peggyttm for a detailed map of the planned canal route).

London to Munich on LH 2475 (an Airbus A320-200) departing Saturday, July 6. Our Flight Duration is 1 hour 45 minutes.

Whilst in Munich we're planning to drink German Beer (why not???) and visit some of the popular visitor attractions, catch up on documenting the trip so far and preparing for the next adventure.

Munich to Denver on LH 480 (an Airbus A330-300) departing Wednesday, July 10.

In Denver we will hire a car and begin an 18 day road trip through Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, and South Dakota to visit Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, Mount Rushmore National Memorial and Badlands National Park together with a few of the sights in and around Denver before heading home.

Denver back to Sydney via San Francisco on UA 737 (a Boeing 737-900) and QF 74 (a Boeing 747-400)  departing and loosing a day, arriving Thursday, August 1. The Flight Durations are 2 hours 43 minutes and 14 hours 40 minutes.

Cheers,

Roger 😎.