Teresa and Paul's World Tour - 2011

If you think that dealing with vendors is frustrating when you move into an apartment...think about how tough it is to pull away when you're heading out of the country...for a very long time.  Or in our case, permanently. They don't want to let you go... ATT:  We want to keep our cell phone service for emergencies while traveling, and they would like us to continue paying over $100/month for service.  But that's just not practical for us.  :-)  ATT maintains that we can't use the iPhone without paying for the data services that we won't use (we have an iPad). Time Warner Cable:  Trying to cancel this service is just as challenging as getting the cable hooked up.  They can only pick up the cable box one day during a four hour window, out of the next 15 days.  Or we can go to their offices and drop the equipment with them. Vonage home phone service:  Vonage wanted to give us a one month credit just so we would stay connected to them, eve...

So... the balls are now all in motion. Teresa and I have resigned from work and have planned the transition of our apartment lease to a friend of ours. Now we can formally begin to plan the big trip down to Australia... As it stands Teresa and I plan to travel down to Peru for a quick 10 day trip to Cusco and Marchu Pichu in mid-April, then to Melbourne Australia via Paris, Istanbul, New Delhi, and Bangkok... with a number of side trips along the way. The only catch is that we'd prefer not to tap in to any savings, and we'll be on the road for 2-3 months. So we're going to try our best to use a combination of Frequent Flier points (for both flights and Hotels) and stay with friends when possible, and moderately priced hotels when we have to. I'm going to keep posting updates as we build out our plans, and it will be interesting to see how successful we are in the end. Wish us luck....