Preparation

"the planning can be more fun than the trip itself . . . ."

Welcome to Roger & Helen's trip diary "Round the World in 200 days" - the complete travel chronicle from Vancouver through to Bangkok. If you haven't already heard, we'll be visiting twenty two countries (the Caribbean island of St Maarten - St Martin counts as one country) between July 2011 and January 2012.

If you've followed our previous travel blogs you'll already know that we think publishing an online diary is a great way to keep in touch with family, friends and colleagues whilst we're away. We plan to document our trip as we go so you get a taste of what we've been up to pretty much as soon as its happened. We think it's much better than postcards especially since we never send postcards.

We hope this introductory page gives you a bit of an idea about what's planned so far.

In previous blogs we've produced a daily bulletin of news and photos however the prospect of producing 200 posts is far too daunting (even Roger couldn't keep this up for the whole journey) so we're going with Rah's suggestion that a post per place / tour might be manageable. So, the table below is a proposed list of the posts we've decided to publish whilst we're away. There might be the occasional "special" edition along the way - we'll all just have to wait and see.

If your preferred method of staying current is Facebook, (and you're already one of our Facebook friends), you should start seeing semi-regular update reminders on one or both of our walls. The blog's web address (by the way) is http://rtwin200.blogspot.com/.


The map at the top of the page shows a simplified path of where we're going. It shows the route of the entire journey. As traveling begins we'll show where we're up to using Google Maps.


If you're interested in following our adventure from now until next January and you're familiar with using RSS feeds - why don't you subscribe? One easy way is to have an RSS reader gadget on your iGoogle page.

It would be terrific if you became a follower of this blog. It would also be fantastic you were to keep touch by sending us the occasional online comment.

To send a comment just click on the comments link here or at the end of every post). You don't need a Blogger account to do this - just enter your name and then select "Other". We'd love to get your questions and feedback.

We'd also really appreciate any helpful hints of what to do and see and what not to forget during the planning. There's a huge list of things to research in the time we have left. (The countdown clock near the top of the page is already becoming a little bit scary to think about) . . . . . . .


Roger & Helen.

Blog Publishing Schedule

DESTINATION / ODYSSEY	Publication on
Vancouver and Seattle	12/7/2011
Alaska Tour and Cruise	25/7/2011
Canadian Rockies	1/8/2011
Las Vegas / Grand Canyon	4/8/2011
New York	11/8/2011
Washington	15/8/2011
Florida	21/8/2011
Caribbean Cruise	29/8/2011
Istanbul	2/9/2011
Turkey Tour	15/9/2011
Greek Isles	29/9/2011
Rome, Florence, and Tuscany	8/10/2011
Mediterranean / Black Sea Cruise	20/10/2011
Venice	21/10/2011
Canal (Narrow Boat) Cruising	30/10/2011
London	1/11/2011
Rhine / Main / Danube River Cruise	17/11/2011
Berlin	21/11/2011
India	6/12/2011
Singapore	10/12/2011
Vietnam	24/12/2011
Hong Kong	27/12/2011
China	8/1/2012
Thailand	22/1/2012

_______________________________________