roundtheworldin18days

  Right, lets begin with a question, as we bring this blog to a close. Why do people (not all people, but many people) wish you a 'safe flight' - is there some implication that flying is dangerous and this will exonerate the conscience if we do all go down in a ball of flames?  And why is the same level of concern rarely used on the outbound leg of a journey, where it is always, have a great trip etc Statistically if there is a danger, its just as dangerous. And then we know other forms of transport are much more dangerous, we do get the occasional safe travels/journey, but its again, more likely to be have a good trip. Answers on a postcard please, is there a correlation between this term and a fear of flying/technology? Onto more important matters, but still safety related. We survived 3 nights in not the best of neighbourhoods without any injury to our person or property, which statistically was far more likely than anything flight related.   A few I think have picked up on

  the words of Elijah (although could have been Yoda), one of our Uber drivers when discussing the ups and downs of travel, and a healthy reminder when we hit any points of imperfection. The reality is we are generally always well up on the deal although I am honest when we have concerns, and also interesting to remind all those who say they wish they were here, would you really, I'd be surprised if many would want to do it our way!  And I'm not sure I would advise it either!! Today has been a break even sort of day, easy to talk up the good stuff on the blog as you don't tend to narrate/photograph the other things! Our laissez faire approach means we we don't half end up with some random results and sticky situations. An example of our lets say loose approach to travel in general is it has taken 3 trips to San Fran to be organised enough to pre book Alcatraz, but today was the day. Chrissi in particular has made this her lifes goal, can't say I was as bothered, but