Inevitably the time has ticked by even though at times it seemed like 2010 would never get here.  There are still a couple of hurdles to get over but right now it looks as if my planned departure on my Round The World will actually be happening.

There’s one main issue with work that will hopefully be resolved by the end of July.  My own self imposed cut off date.  If I don’t get somewhere with that by the end of July then I’ll be putting in the paperwork to take my long service leave.

Should everything work out well with work, or not work out depending on point of view then I intend to head off in November 2010.  It puts me in a strange position really since obviously I’ve started planning for the trip, yet it still might not happen.

I’m caught in between wanting the thing I’m working on career wise to finally happen.  After all its been 8 years of work to get this close to my goal.  Or wanting it to be delayed or fail so I can finally head off on my trip.  Its like I’m heading towards a massive fork in the road and I still do not know which way I’m going to head.

Still the planning has started. At this stage I’ll be flying into South America to which ever major city has the cheapest airfare at the time and out of the Caribbean possibly from Cuba after about 10 and into Spain.  From there after a little look around I will need to get myself to St Petersburg where I intend to take the Trans-Mongolian ending up in Beijing.  I’ll spend some time looking around China before ending my trip by flying out of Hong Kong back home to Australia.

I’ve been researching airfares but still haven’t decided which way to jump.  There really is only two ways I can go.  Either a one way ticket into South America and just go from there or a basic Round the World (RTW) ticket. 

I’m leaning towards the oneway airfare.