T-minus 3 weeks
Things are getting closer and closer – and there’s more and more organising to be done.
Rob and I have been busy buying suitcases and a bunch of travel type stuff (eye masks, neck pillow, travel hairdryer, money belt etc). And it’s all adding up!
We are also looking at what is the best way to deal with money overseas. There is the Travelex Cash Passport and the ANZ Travel Card. I reckon the ANZ one looks the best. You BPAY money into your account and you can use it for ATM withdrawals (US$2.20 fee each time) and on EFTPOS (free). So it’s all much cheaper than a normal bank account which charges something like $5 per ATM withdrawal – no thanks! There’s also no money stored on the card, so if we lose it (or get mugged) we wont be losing any money.
We also have to work out what to do with mobile phones overseas. We will turn on our international roaming – but that is hella expensive for when people call/msg us. So we will probably end up getting a pre-paid sim card with some American company and using that. I am sure we will post our number up here when we get it (maybe we will even get a new iphone to go with that… 🙂 )
Anyways, this has been a boring post – I shouldnt have started this blog a month before fly-out – running out of things to say…
Leeane