Well, here we are 40 days after leaving home, back again! We sat on the tarmac in Honolulu for an hour while Jetstar unloaded a pallet of freight - apparently the plane was too heavy - but our flight was good with the aircraft being a newish Airbus A330-200 which was very comfortable and had reasonable leg room.And surprise, surprise!!!! After being told we would have to take any food etc on with us, passengers who booked through Qantas were given full inflight s...

Only 12 days to go before we set off on our long awaited trip! The days are flying past now and although we have been getting things together for ages, there still seems to be lots of last minute bits and pieces to get done. Nevertheless I am sure that by the 15th we will be all set to go. We have been checking the weather conditions in the US regularly and it will be pretty hot in most places we go - up to the century mark in many of them. Still it is summer ove...