The journey begins: Two Aussies wander the world

A fairly rude 4:45am wake up call and a short drive to the airport heralded the first leg of our vacation today. It’s been 6 months in planning (and saving) and there’s a couple of people I’d like to thank for the opportunity. Firstly, my wife Faith, who works tirelessly on our business and also rides my ass to keep me in line at all [most] times. Faith has planned most of the places to visit and that will be of interest to us when in the UK and did all the gift-shopping for our little niece in Finland for which I, naturally, will take all the credit. The second person I’d like to credit for this vacation is the indomitable and most highly esteemed..Well, me! Yep, I am thanking myself which may not seem conventional however this trip has been provided for by us, our hard work, effort, ability to save and to go without and of course by our ethos to design and create our ideal life. Thank you Faith, the love of my life, and thank you @galenkp, you’re a champ!

So, we find ourselves in the Adelaide Airport awaiting our flight. We have cleared the first security screening in which my unbroken record of being randomly explosive-screened was indeed broken. We will go through another screening to get into the International Departure Lounge where I have another chance to get randomly screened and then it’ll be boarding time. The first leg is Adelaide-Singapore with an 8 hour layover then the long haul flight Singapore-London. It’ll be a great trip I think. We’ve not been to the UK before and considering both our ancestry’s began there we are looking forward seeing what it’s all about. It’s also been a long while since I saw my family in Finland so we’re looking forward to that reunion. Thirteen years is too long.

Anyway, I had better finish up now, Faith left me here to write this little blog whilst she looks through the Victoria’s Secret shop here in the terminal...That could be costly and so I better go see what she’s doing. I hope some of you guys [all of ya’ll] follow our travels over the next six weeks though; I’ll try to respond to any replies when I can.

Faith & Galen x