Quote Originally Posted by eclectic View Post
Are you on a pleasure trip or a work trip? - sounds very exciting and exotic either way. Keep us posted on where you are. I love to live vicariously through others travels (just let us know what strand you put it on)
It's a pleasure trip, with the exception that DH is interviewing for a job here in Melbourne yesterday and today.

I've mentioned a bit about the trip in the Touring forum - there's a thread called "tanking economy and trip planning" that shootingstar started.

We're doing a round-the-world itinerary with Star Alliance -- it's actually only slightly more expensive than one or two round-trip international tickets, dpending on the mileage you choose, except you get multiple destinations up to a year. We've been saving up to do this for a while, and recently found ourselves both *ahem* "unencumbered by work commitments." So it seems like this is the ideal time to do a trip like this!

We started in Paris then flew to Singapore to use as a hub for other points in Asia. I already mentioned Indonesia, and next week we'll go to Taiwan to hang out with my extended family for a couple weeks. After that, New Zealand. A friend of mine recently suggested we might want to try going to the Phillipines as well, so we might add that on. We expect to be home late March.

People have been asking me to post pictures, so I think the easiest thing for me to do is edit down a selection when I get home and post them on their own separate thread. I'll let you know when I do that.