The trip is just one 12 days away now. Its starting to become reality to me, its hitting me hard. I have so much to do and such little time. I’ve got all my documents and everything is paid off and ready to go. Just waiting on a few things to be emailed to me so i have back up copies while im away. But other than that its all done. Now its just a matter of trying not to panic and staying calm (panic that im forgetting something).<\/p>\n
A lot of the people I am on contiki with are leaving over the next week. Someone left last night, a few days and another couple go, and then the big lot going around the same time I am. It will be good once I hit new york to get to meet everyone and finally get to meet people in real life. We have been chatting on facebook for some time now.<\/p>\n
So with all the plans done, I finally can give you all the finalised trip (which now has a little sidetrip at the end.. you’ll see).<\/p>\n
September 9th – Last Day at Work Its gonna be AWESOME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The trip is just one 12 days away now. Its starting to become reality to me, its hitting me hard. I have so much to do and such little time. I’ve got all my documents and everything is paid off and ready to go. Just waiting on a few things to be emailed to me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-america-2009"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p49RU0-5h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSeptember 10th – Pack & Panic
\nSeptember 11th (hehehe) – It begins
\n5am: Pick up at home by Murrays Coaches (freebie from work) in a 9 seat executive Van (whatever that is).
\nQF389 – Brisbane to Tokyo (Narita) 0845\/1705 – Boeing 767-300\/ER – Operated by JAL
\nOvernight – Hotel Nikko Narita
\nSeptember 12th – Moring to Explore Narita (do some plane spotting)
\nNW20 – Tokyo (Narita) to Minneapolis-St Paul 1625\/1320 – Boeing 747-400 – Operated by Northwest\/Delta
\nNW5665 – Minneapolis-St Paul to Washington DC Dulles 1500\/1828 – Embraer 175 – Operated by Compass Airlines
\nSeptember 12-15th – Washington DC – Hotel: Liason Hotel Capitol Hill
\nSeptember 13th – Explore
\nSeptember 14th – Explore (Pentagon Tour Booked, Capitol Hill Tour Booked).
\nSeptember 15th
\nAmtrak Acela Express – 0900\/1145 – Washington DC Union Station to New York City Penn Station
\nSeptember 15th – 18th – New York City – Hotel: Milford Plaza Hotel
\nSeptember 16th: Explore (possibly Yankees Game)
\nSeptember 17th: Explore (USS Intrepid Museum)
\nSeptember 18th: Contiki Grand Northern Tour: Itinerary<\/a>
\nOctober 12-17th – Anaheim – Hotel: Hilton Anaheim (nothing yet planned playing all these days by ear)
\nOctober 17th
\nVX781 – Los Angeles to Seattle 0915\/1155 – Airbus A319 – Operated by Virgin America
\nOctober 17-21 – Seattle – Hotel: Executive Pacific Hotel
\nOctober 18th: Morning Pikes Place Market Tour, Afternoon – Seattle Seahawks vs Arizona Cardinals
\nOctober 19th: Morning Boeing Factory Tour
\nOctober 20th: Car Hire Booked with Budget – Plane Spotting Day
\nOctober 21st
\nNW219 – Seattle to Honolulu 0820\/1116 – Boeing 757-300 – Operated by Northwest\/Delta
\nOctober 21-25th – Honolulu Hawaii – Hotel: Aqua Waikiki Wave
\nOctober 22nd: Explore
\nOctober 23rd: Morning – USS Arizona, Missouri & Punchbowl Tour
\nOctober 24th: Explore
\nOctober 25th
\nNW21 – Honolulu to Tokyo (Narita) 1235\/1630+1 – Airbus A330-300 – Operated by Northwest\/Delta
\nOctober 26th
\nQF390 – Tokyo (Narita) to Brisbane 2110\/0705+1 – Boeing 767-300\/ER – Operated by JAL
\nOctober 27th – Home… but not for long
\nOctober 28th – Rest & Re Pack
\nOctober 29th
\nQF782 – Brisbane to Cairns 0955\/1215 – Boeing 737-400 – Operated by Qantas
\nRetrieve Hire Car Booked with Avis
\nOctober 29th-31st – Cape Tribulation – Hotel: Cape Tribulation Resort & Spa
\nOctober 31st-November 2nd – Cairns – Hotel: Palm Royale Cairns
\nNovember 2nd
\nQF649 – Cairns to Brisbane 1255\/1505 – Boeing 737-800 – Operated by Qantas
\nNovember 3rd: Home – Rest
\nNovember 4th: Back to work<\/p>\n