Four weeks, two people and a thousand lists...

We've suddenly realised just how much time we don't have before we go. And the lists are growing exponentially.

Our first flight leaves Heathrow on Friday November 3oth, to take us on our four month odyssey to America, Australia, New Zealand and back to America, before landing back at Heathrow on March 19th, 2008. It is the big trip of a lifetime, and having started off as a way of getting away for C*****mas (the first idea was a cottage in Cornwall!), it's ballooned into an adventure which covers 29 thousand miles of flying, utilising 9 separate flights, visiting at least 13 towns and cities, meeting new additions to friends families and chasing summer around the globe.

This will be our way of letting you know what we're up to, where we've been, what we liked, who we met and how we got there.

The explanation we've been giving people is that we're not desperate to leave here, just desperate to get there. Providing the lists get a bit shorter, that is.