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Kia Aro from New Zealand!

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After fifteen hours of flights and four or so hours of lay-overs we’ve arrived at our first destination: New Zealand.

You may say to yourself: “Too Easy! An Around the world trip that starts half-way around the world, they’re cheating.” Well, yes maybe we are cheating. And if you would like to help finance a trip to backfill the Dallas to New Zealand segment please get in contact with us at once.

Anyway, New Zealand is very far away. If you’re reading this before you go to bed on the east coast in the states, we’re getting ready for dinner …the NEXT DAY.

A few things lead us to start our trip in NZ: it’s a soft landing, despite the jet-lag.

  • They speak English
  • We have conntacts here
  • The exchange rate works in our favor
  • It’s suppose to have a terrifically beatiful and varied environments

So compared to some of the other destinations on our itenerary (Mongolia, Namibia, to name only two), NZ is looking pretty easy to get our arms around. Let’s hope it’s a good place for us to start learning how to be round the world travelers.

The Itinerary – For Now…

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Okay, the Irish screwed us. After going through everything, AND running our credit card they told us (by email) that they had quoted us for the wrong price. And it would be about 1,000 euros more!

Now I don’t follow the currency market like I should, but I do know that right now the exchange rate for US Dollars to Euros is no good, and a thousand Euros is …well, more that we want to pay. So this kind of kills the incentive to use this travel agent (ever).

Between the travel agents fees, the taxes and the price of flying to get there, we weren’t going to save very much money.

So, what’s next? Now we are looking at flights to the UK. LeeAnnes brother lives there and could purchase the tickets for use. The tickets are actually cheaper there than in Ireland, and it’s a little cheaper to get there. The downside is the trip would be over when we connect on any flights through Heathrow. And since British Airways is the main OneWorld partner in Europe, that means almost all the flights out of Africa go throough the UK.