This is all great stuff. It only makes us sad that we don't have endless time to spend. We've promised our families that we will cross Canada next summer - the first time in nearly a decade that we'll spend more than a few weeks in our home country - so we better not disappoint them. Anyway, the cargo ship is now booked from Auckland to Seattle for May 20th and the flight from Singapore to Perth on December 2nd. We know it's going to be busy in January but we'll just have to deal with it. Better busy Australia than none at all!

Thanks again everyone. I hope you don't mind we aren't replying to every post. Would never get out of Chiang Mai if we did! But we will post our 'final' plan - if anything is final - and reports afterwards. Of course if we can help anyone at all with information we gather, just shout.