Many of our friends want to know our travel deets. What you may not know is Johnny and I love the beach, and as our Blog title suggests, we plan to be around beaches or somewhere hot almost the whole trip. Even though this is a pretty rough itinerary- here is an idea of the places and a rough time estimate of where we’ll be (just in case you're thinking of joining us!).
Where are we starting?
We bought a 1989 Ford RV, pretty sweet eh?
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So here’s the plan; sometime next summer, we hit the road, heading across Canada to BC, then south along the west coast of the US. We have two months (nothing really planned). I will be booking some of the more popular parks- Jasper, Banff, Yosemite, Death Valley, Redwood, Joshua Tree., but otherwise we will have a pretty open itinerary. Dad is going to fly down to LA to meet us for a few days and drive the RV home, (lucky us!).
From LA we get on our first plane to Panama. Once again pretty loose itinerary, we have two months in Central America and plan to hit Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize. December 3rd we have to be in Mexico as I already rented a house for us in Playa Del Carmen for 5 weeks.
From Mexico we fly to Hawaii stay for about 5 days, then on to Australia to visit or friends Nick and Kathy, (they are in Sydney). After Sydney, we then will fly to New Zealand, hopefully we will rent a car and stay in the south for about a week. Then to Indonesia with a stopover in Vanuatu (Johnny really wants to do some diving there). We plan on being in Indonesia for about 3-4 weeks. Many of our friends told us that it is so beautiful and still pretty cheap. Hopefully my girl friends will join us in the Gilli islands, and then from there we will hit Malaysia. After Malaysia on the the rest of SE Asia. From here we will maybe hit Sri Lanka. Finally our last leg will be the European tour where we will hopefully stay for about 2 months.
There you have it! As I mentioned, this itinerary is very loose and subject to change. Only the big legs will be pre booked and rest we will play by ear (oh the horror!).
Here it is broken down with dates (Tentative!):
August - depart Toronto
Sept - Enter the US drive down the coast
October 3rd- LA- Panama
October 10th Panama -Costa Rica (overland?)
October 24th- Costa Rica- Nicaragua (overland) -Possibly meet Annie in San Juan Del Sur)
November 7- Nicaragua to Hondouras
Nov 14- Hondouras -Guatamala
November 21- Guatamala- Belize
Dec 3 Arrive in Playa Del Carmen Mexico for 5 weeks!
January 7-Mexico-Hawaii
January 12- Hawaii- Sydney
January 19- Sydney-New Zealand
January 25- New Zealand- Vanuatu
January 29- Vanuatu- Indonesia (Lombok, Sumatra, Java Bali and Gilli (maybe Annie and Nic to join us here)
March 1st- Indo- Malaysia (Langkawi, Perhentian Islands and Penang)
March 7- Malaysia- Cambodia
March 12-Cambodia- Vietnam
March 19 Vietnam-Thailand
April 19- Thailand- Sri Lanka
April 24- Sri Lanka- Goa
April 29-Goa-Greece
May -June- Rest of Europe
July Return to our property in Northern Ontario
This is a LOOSE itinerary, we are flexible and understand that things never go as planned...we would be happy for any of our friends to come visit us somewhere, and we will make sure we are in that spot during that time...(come on...how many of you are just dying to go to Thailand? Here's your chance!
