I Just Turned Our Trip Upside Down

15. January 2009, 8:05 pmUncategorized, caravanninglightening

Well, not upside-down exactly but we’re looking at changing our minds and heading off the way we intended to come home and coming home the way we intended to head off (or maybe come home an entirely different way).

One of my favourite hobbies is to plan trips. I love to sit down with a blank sheet of paper, a map, a calculator and a pencil (for some reason I prefer to write in pencil when I’m doing this). Then I plan how far we’ll drive each day, how many kilometres that will be and what town we’ll stay in.

map of Australia

When we planned our trip to Darwin a number of years back, I think I got almost as much pleasure from the planning stages as I did from the trip itself.

With our “big trip”, we’re trying not to plan things too closely. We have, however, been looking at a number of route options and planning a very broad timeline to ensure that we fit in the things we really want to do during our time away.

Today I’ve been playing around with the first 2 weeks of our trip away (with a change in direction) and things seem to be falling into place quite neatly. Hopefully that means we’re on the right track with changing our minds on which way we’ll head off. There are a few details we need to sort out before we can be sure that we’ll stick to this plan. And, with 5 and a half months to go, anything could change between now and then.

I am having fun plotting and planning though! Smile

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6 comments:

  1. river, 15. January 2009, 20:25

    I love the planning stages of things. I think I’m addicted to anticipation.

     
  2. Joyce, 15. January 2009, 22:40

    how cool, make sure you go to mataranka, and buleys rockpools and and i could just keep going LOL

    We are going home to visit in September we think at this stage…I am sooooo looking forward to laksa from Laksa Marys on Mindil Beach on market night..mmmm…*insert drool here*

     
  3. lightening, 15. January 2009, 23:42

    River - me too!

    Joyce - we’re not going Darwin way this time as we’ve already been there. This trip will be mostly Queensland and New South Wales. I can’t wait to go to Darwin again though - it was lovely and we did have a quick stop at Mataranka for a swim. I’d love to stop there longer next time.

     
  4. Dina, 16. January 2009, 3:38

    You remind me so much of me in this way!

    I love planning trips. And I do sometimes have as much fun planning a trip as I do going on the trip.

    What happens to me is I sometimes do so much planning, I’m tired of the plans before they happen. So I end up changing them or ignoring them.

    We changed our trip to Australia about three times.

     
  5. Meredith from Merchant Ships, 17. January 2009, 2:26

    I agree–the planning is as much fun as the trip itself! It’s nice to have something new to Google in the weeks before.

     
  6. jeanie, 18. January 2009, 10:03

    If you are heading near the region that has a certain square bottle of rum named after it, let me know and I will cook you guys dinner.

     

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