Synopsis of our trip

Mike and I are about to leave on our grand adventure. For those of you who don’t know, I will give a synopsis of how the idea to go on a 6 month trip came about.

We were sitting in a coffee shop sometime last spring talking about doing some traveling. We both thought that a 2 week vacation (about all that either of our jobs would allow) wasn’t enough time to really explore a country. It was casually suggested that we quit our jobs, put our belongings in storage and travel for a couple of months. The more we thought about it, the more we liked the idea, and the more we realized that it would not get any easier to do a trip like this down the road.

Thus, the six month trip idea was born. We weren’t sure where we wanted to go, but had both discussed previously that we wanted to see Europe (neither of us has ever been). We decided to go see as much of Europe as we could and then head to South-East Asia. Originally, we wanted to also go to Australia and New Zealand after this, but it was decided that we would probably run out of time and money before then.

Currently, the plan is to start in Dublin, Ireland and then work our way from there to Scotland, England, and possibly Wales. After this, it will be on to continental Europe. We have a rough list of places and sights we'd like to see, a train pass, and about 3 months to explore Western and Eastern Europe and Northern Africa. We think that we'll end up in Turkey and then fly to Thailand where we'll spend another 2.5 to 3 months exploring SE Asia.

We hope that everyone enjoys the blog. We will try to keep it as updated as often as we can (and all future posts will feature many more photos and much less text!). Please leave comments, suggestions, and goings on. We will see everyone again in six short months!