States/Countries visited

Eileen has a great blog. She recently featured a cool map where you can plot where you've been in the US and the world. Since this is essentially a travel blog, I thought I might add my current maps. Our big trip will only add about 10-12 new countries for me, but at least it will cover two big current gaps - Australasia and South America. I still need to get to sub-Saharan Africa. I also need to get Russia under my belt to cover the big empty space at the top.

Ready to hit the road

Welcome to our blog. Hopefully as we travel around we'll be able to access this and update it accordingly with some nice pics and some good stories. We might as well start our first post by showing our itinerary. Here's a link if you want all the nitty gritty:

https://www.virtuallythere.com/new/reservations.html?pnr=CXWCBG&name=GO&language=0&email=2&clocktype=12&style=0

The summarized version:

Oct 20 - London to Beijing
late October - Beijing, Shanghai (for Karen's brother Brian's wedding) and on to Tibet
early November - Nepal
mid to late November - India
Dec 4 - Mumbai to Bangkok
early Dec - Thailand and possibly Angkor Wat
Dec 11 - Bangkok to Manila
mid Dec - Philippines
Dec 26 - Manila to Sydney
New Year's and early Jan - Australia
Jan 19 - Brisbane to Auckland
late Jan, early Feb - New Zealand
Feb 9 (landing Feb 8!!) - Auckland to Tahiti
Feb 12 - Tahiti to Easter Island
Feb 15 - Easter Island to Santiago, Chile
Feb 16 - Santiago to Rio (in time for Carnival!)
mid Feb through early May - South America, itinerary TBD but including Brazil, Argentina, Chile, possibly Bolivia, definitely Peru and Ecuador
May 4 - Quito, Ecuador to New York
May - US - Boston, NYC, Philly, DC, Chicago
Jun 6 - Boston to London

We're both extremely excited to begin this adventure and hopefully this blog will let other people experience a bit of it with us.