Wed 20th - Friday 22 Feb 2008: En route

Currently in transit between Melbourne and Wellington. After 27hrs of travel I can safely say that this is the longest journey I've ever been on except for the annual Lewis holiday in one of dad's multiplicity of Series 3 Landrovers - these excursions would often take days or weeks to complete despite the destination being a hop across the Biggar in Dumfries and Galloway (a three hour journey max from the mini-mecca that is Leyland) we had to perform a full engine regrind enroute because Ma Lewis exceeded the top speed of 36mph and the engine blew up. Three days later we disembarked.