Hyper-Planning Mode

I'm in planning overdrive...my brain's melting from entering dates into pretty much every travel site there is out there. Flights, trains, ferries, camper hire...so many modes of transport to try link up!

Finally popped into Trailfinders to suss out the price of Conor's flights, and my flight home. How depressing is it that he's gonna do twice the distance I'm doing for less money! Looks like we'll get a pretty sweet deal if we book before February 28th, so hoping to finalise flight dates this week and book them next weekend. From there we can start nailing down the rest of the transport. I'm working on camper van hire right now..still hoping for the 30% discount I was looking at for the hire in Australia. If we can get the discount that's another booking to be confirmed before the end of the month. Everything will be falling into place nicely ;)

Plan at the moment looks a little something like this:
Sail & Rail (Dublin - Holyhead - London)
Ozbus (London - Sydney)
Indian Pacific Railway (Sydney - Adelaide - Perth)
Some kind of touring (Perth - Ningaloo Reef - Perth)
Fly Perth - Melbourne
Ferry Melbourne - Tasmania (3 day tour then back to Melbourne)
Meet Conor in Melbourne
Camper van from Melbourne - Brisbane (via Great Ocean Road, Canberra, Sydney and if time up to Frazer Island and back)
Fly Brisbane - Auckland
Camper van from Auckland - Christchurch (looping both islands)
Fly home Christchurch - Dublin

It really does look like it's going to be the trip of a lifetime, and I'm incredibly excited to get it started. It's still a way away, but with everything falling into place bit by bit it's hard to contain the thrill sometimes.

First of my vaccination appointments this week :( Not a needle fan...but it's for the greater good! Not sure what the GP has on the table for me..she reckons three visits will get everything done for me, and thankfully I don't need some of what I thought I might so I'm down 7 shots on what I was preparing for...nice for me and nicer for my wallet!