Our trip back home is going to look something like this:

Port Vila - Sydney

November 7 - Get haircut, buy jeans, tshirts & shoes. See Opera House.

Sydney - Melbourne

November 11 Go to museums, bars and cafes.

Melbourne - Bangkok

November 15 - We'll start in Bangkok and then move north. From northern Thailand we'll travel into Laos and then south. We'll cross back into Thailand at some point to visit Ubon Rachatani, where my dad was stationed during the Vietnam war. After that we'll head into Cambodia and then back to Bangkok for Christmas.

Bangkok - Mumbai

December 29 - We'll stay mostly in western and northern India. As far south as Goa and as far north as Amritsar. We'll go to the Taj Mahal and lots of other temples and if we've got the time and the energy we'll try to head to Darjeeling in the north east.

New Delhi - Abu Dhabi

February 1 - In Abu Dhabi we'll meet up with a friend of mine who I worked with while I was in the Air Force. He's a Jordanian engineer who's working for the company that's building the palm tree islands.

Abu Dhabi - NYC

February 12 - Back to NYC in time for Valentine's Day. This is shaping up to be a family reunion in NY. So if your name is now or ever has been Mello, Fitzgerald or Marshall (or if you know someone who has one of those names) then you better make your plans now to be in NYC that weekend.

NYC - North Carolina - San Diego

Febraury 25 - The last leg of the trip...see the family on the east coast, visit my grandparents in Fayetteville and then back to California. And just because it only says San Diego doesn' t mean that we won't be spending time in San Francisco, Marysville and Portland among other places.