We are departing on a road trip this Saturdy. We Iam taking 4 weeks off work and we are visiting a state of Australia that we have not seen a lot of. QLD. Sure we have been to Brisbane and done all the Brisbane things that there are to do, but we want more of an advnture.
We love adventures. We thrive on adventure and we look forward to new adventures.
This adventure is not your normal run of the mill, trip to Waterhouse, or The Gardens, this is going to be an almost 8000 kilometre journey. In old money that is about 5000 miles. That is 1.82% of a one way trip to the moon, or 17.5 % of the earth's circumference.
We are either going to come back with swollen bottoms and a hatered towards car travel, or filled with enthusiasm to do it all again. I'm hoping the latter.
Keeping the kids entertained is going to be difficult, and it has been on our minds ever since we imagined that it would be at all possible.
In this day and age there are so many ways to keep kids occupied. I mean there are I pads, I pones, I Pods, I everything. When I was a kid all I had were two eyes, and an imagination, or my minds eye. My kids will have more than their two eyes, but I do hope that Mariah and I will have the strength and determinaton to remove the "I"s and encourage the use of eyes.
To help with this Mariah and I came up with some journals for the kids to use.
We hope that the games will keep drwaing they eyes away from the Is and look at the amazing ccountry that we are free to explore.
The challenge will also be for the adults to keep our eyes on the kids and the journey. We have a hand written diary, as well as this electronic diary. I can sit anywhere on my tiny keyboard and phone and leave a journal entry like this.It is quite extraordinary that I can do this, but only to be used as a tool to record memories.
With only 3 days to go we are extreemly excited, and as prepared as we will ever be.
Bring it on!
