Passport? Check. Luggage? Check. Ticket?? Check!

...and a ticket has now been acquired and Feb 8th is the day! (assuming the B.A. strikes don't roll over to this day as well...)

The current plan of action is:

1. Bangkok (and southern Thailand's beaches)
   
2. Hong Kong
3. Perth
4. Overland to Sydney
5. Auckland
6. Santiago
7. Quito (and hopefully the Galapagos Islands)
8. Buenos Aires
9. Sao Paulo
10. and finally back to Blighty

Edit: Good old Royal Mail delivery service somehow manages to not gain anyones attention when there's 2 people in the house waiting for the ticket to arrive... (muppets).