Trip Reports - RTW progress report posted

Our RTW has now reached Oz, and I've added some content to the blog/website linked in the signature line below. The addition includes AA FC SEA-ORD-LAX-HNL and QF J HNL-SYD, along with commentary and ruminations. Feedback here or via the site welcome.

Looks great ^ , Gardyloo! Only thing I think would add a bit more to your website would be a few more photos, but I know how time-consuming it is getting them prepared and uploaded!!! :)

Looks great ^ , Gardyloo! Only thing I think would add a bit more to your website would be a few more photos, but I know how time-consuming it is getting them prepared and uploaded!!! :)
Thanks - I've added plenty more; report now includes around half the Oz portion of the RTW; flight reports coming soon.

Wow. What an amazing blog! You have put an incredible amount of work into it. It is really a work of art. Of course, I enjoyed the logistics parts - the schedule, with all of its clickable links, and the discussion of how to put together RTWs.

And btw - killer picture of your son and his bride-to-be amidst the flowers.^

A most excellent website!^

Thank you for sharing your travels in such a complete manner.

Love it! Great stuff.

Service seems British-paced, i.e., glacial, to my evident annoyance.
:D :D :D

gardyloo,

I'm lovin' it !

What a great website, and a great account of a great trip.

The feedback button on the site isn't working for me, though - might just be me or might be worth checking out.

Also, there is one cheap place to stay around Uluru - if you head east about 50 miles, you get to the Curtin Springs homestead, where a double room costs only A$50. Although it's a simple place, it's a bargain, and does allow you to sit in the pub drinking $3 tooheys with the locals :D

cheers
stewie

Another update with minor format changes posted today.

I'll try to repair the email link - mysterious.

Awesome!! I am so jealous. Hope to do a similar trip when boys are out of school. I will be closely following your reports.

Hi

Great job with the website ^ I'm liking this format more and more over the tradional post plain text stuff we see on FT. I hope to one day soon start my own RTW and track my progress on a website for all to share. Enjoy your trip - sounds like an amazing experience. :)

My God, that must have taken alot of work, planning and effort. It is marvellous. Very well planned and written and the pictures eve. I enjoyed it tremendously. Keep it up pal. ^ ^ ^

More updates posted - only a few pix from the first 4 days in Africa uploaded so far (out of >700 taken) - we'll be out of connectivity for a few days in the bush so if I can I'll update narrative etc. during that time, battery willing.

However I've posted a flight report on our SYD-JNB seg in QF J including some interesting aerial pix and one of a sky route map one doesn't see every day. Check it out.

Quick advice if you come to Zimbabwe. Bring your own petrol. Also dollars - lots of dollars. And don't forget your humility. Cried when I had no shoes... if you know what I mean.

Peace...

I ran out of storage on my host so I've had to open a secondary site to continue with the Africa portion - http://home.comcast.net/~gardyloo2

No flight reports yet but some pix and a little narrative on events up till around 10 days ago. More in process.

Meanwhile, here's a sample pic; a cautionary note is that the site has an R-rated image of lions doing the wild thing.

http://home.comcast.net/~gardyloo2/mudbuff2.jpg

Awsome blog! Many thanks.

Wonderful writing. Waiting for the rest of the Africa portion.

Thanks for the great reporting. How enjoyable!

Updates with Kruger Park area and Cape Town musings and pix have now been posted.

Updates with Kruger Park area and Cape Town musings and pix have now been posted.

I am really enjoying reading your reports, especially now you have reached a part of the world (southern Africa) which I know and love well. However you are wrong when you say that the Vic Falls is only a couple of hundred yards wide - in fact it is 1.6km (1 mile) across, almost two-thirds of which lies on the Zambian side. At its high point the drop is more than 100m, or twice that of the Niagara Falls.

I am really enjoying reading your reports, especially now you have reached a part of the world (southern Africa) which I know and love well. However you are wrong when you say that the Vic Falls is only a couple of hundred yards wide - in fact it is 1.6km (1 mile) across, almost two-thirds of which lies on the Zambian side. At its high point the drop is more than 100m, or twice that of the Niagara Falls.
Thanks for the clarification. We were told 103m was the deepest point (around 335 feet, so my miscalculation) and obviously "a couple hundred yards" is inaccurate 99% of the time. Some parts of the canyon are wide, some narrow. By "broader" in referring to Niagara I think (?) I meant more of a bowl-shaped space. Maybe I'll do some editing to make it clearer. I am certainly no waterfall guru. Not much of a guru in anything, actually.

terrific webiste! and awesome photos

Notes and pix on a couple of days in Ireland on the way home, and a few brief flight reports from Africa are now added.

Flight reports CPT - LHR (BA J) - SNN (EI Y) - BOS (AA Y/F) - SEA (AS F) are now added, and linked via the "home" website - http://home.comcast.net/~gardyloo or http://home.comcast.net/~gardyloo2

I shouldn't be spending so much time reading your report while here at work...but I just can't stop! Very enjoyable and informative as well. I plan to do Africa in the next two to three years, so that portion was very educational. It appears I will have to do a lot of pre-planning and research. Seems as though Africa is not one destination you can just use miles and jet off to for a couple weeks without prior planning. Thanks for the awesome report!!! ^

Just starting to read it! Can't wait to finish!

Jeez! And people thought I put in a lot of time on my Trip Reports...!

Indeed, in your case gardyloo it's obviously been time very well spent. I've very much enjoyed reading of your most enviable adventure. I can hardly wait to return to Africa. Thanks for the fine photos as well.

Congratulations on a extremely well done trip report.

I enjoyed reading and viewing it. :-: