Underway
Leave approved - yes! Flights booked - yes! Money saved - mostly yes! Since finding an excuse a couple of years ago (it wasn't hard), we've been aiming to take ourselves and our now two year old on a long holiday, seeing some as yet undiscovered places and returning to some old favourites. We pondered the where, when and how of this intended adventure from time to time. Organising got serious a few months ago. We are both just about to become eligible for long service leave, have done some fairly serious saving and last week got approval to take our proposed four months off during the second half of 2017. I am hoping this will continue the process of instilling in our son a real love of travel, a curiosity about people, places, cultures and history, that he can embed as a lifelong passion or pursue as an occasional escapade. Before he came along, and since he was just a few weeks old, we have indulged our enjoyment of food, drink, exploratio...