Our Grand Adventure!

As many (or maybe just some of you) know we are heading off on a six-month adventure. We had casually talked about going traveling for a while and about a year and a half ago decided that it was now or never. Erik has quit his job and I was granted a leave of absence from mine so we are off! Leaving Thursday, December 20, 2012.

I have dubbed this trip "Our Grand Adventure" as we will be tromping around a large portion of the globe and this may very well be the only lengthy trip we go on.

We will begin our adventure in South America, move along for a short stop in Scotland, spend the majority of our time in South East Asia, and then I will continue on to Australia to visit a dear friend while Erik makes his way home.

A rough outline is provided below, if you're interested.

South America
- Nine Weeks.
- Fly in and out of Lima, Peru.
- Spending most of our time in Peru and Ecuador, but potentially visiting Bolivia and Columbia as well.

Scotland
- Two weeks.
- We are flying from Lima to Amsterdam (with two brief layovers along the way) and will spend roughly 36 hours in Amsterdam.
- We fly from Amsterdam to Inverness, Scotland and we will quickly make our way around the north before heading to Edinburgh to visit college friends.
- After a couple days in Edinburgh we will head to Isle of Arran with said college friends for the weekend before flying from Glasgow back to Amsterdam.

South East Asia
- Thirteen Weeks.
- This seems so far in the future that we haven't even thought about this much.
- Starting in Thailand then working our way to Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia before doing southern Thailand.
- We have a couple friends meeting us for 3+ weeks in SEA and so they will probably dictate what we do those few weeks we get to see them.

*At this point, Erik will return home to go fishing in Alaska and I will continue on solo. 

Australia
- Three weeks.
- I have a friend from high school who lives there so I'll be visiting her.
- Maybe do a bit of traveling, maybe sit on her couch for three weeks straight.
- This will largely be dependent on how much money we have left over.

And that's the plan. If you can even call it a plan. Our flights are booked and that is all we have planned out.