Friday 4 April 2014

The end of this blog - At last !!

I decided some time ago to track each separate adventure on a different blog. This makes it easier for me as I can go to separate blogs when I want to refer to a particular adventure.   And I trust it also makes it easier for you when reading, because if I just put everything on a single blog, the archives would be enormous and it would be much more difficult to find what you wanted to read about.

As I said in the first post of this "Watching and Waiting" blog, it was written to fill in on all the happenings during 2013 while I sold Elsie, bought Troopie, and all the work I then did on Troopie to prepare her for the 2014 adventure.  This also included some of the trips we took, up to Bangkok, down to Melbourne, as well as half way round Australia in July / August.

It is now the 5th April, Troopie is half way across the Pacific Ocean en route to Seattle, and I am due to leave the Gold Coast on the 14th April to meet up with Troopie, and then, once Janet arrives on the 3rd May, we will set off north, through Vancouver Island and the Inside Passage(on ferries), before driving from Haines back up to Alaska. So this blog is now complete, and my next entry will be on http://imgoingonanadventur.blogspot.com and this blog will cover the adventures over the next 12 months or so as we travel from Alaska down to Ushuaia.   The blog covering my 2012 adventure to Alaska and the Arctic Circle in my little Lotus Elise (http://elsiefrombottomtotop.blogspot.com) is still there, and if you haven't read it yet, you may have some fun doing so if you settle down with a good mug of coffee, next to a warm fire, on a cold winters day !!  

And if you continue to follow our adventures over the coming months, and enjoy reading them, then I ask once again that you contact me either through the comments section, or by email direct (via my Profile on the right hand side) because it is short messages letting us know you are out there and reading that spurs me on !  It often takes 4 hours a night (dependent on internet speed) by the time the blog is written and the photos downloaded, so any support is VERY welcome, I can assure you !

Thanks for sharing the past 18 months, and I look forward to the next adventure, starting next week !!

Giles

Tuesday 18 February 2014

Thailand 1 13th - 16th February


Birthdays, puppies, tigers and elephants !!

I arrived in Bangkok from Brisbane on Feb 13th, in the evening.  Damien, Hannah and Poppie had flown over from Perth the day before and were going to babysit our house and Trooper while I was away.  Janet had flown up to Bangkok a week earlier to spend some time with Sarah - It was exactly a year since either of us had been up here to see her and Benn.