httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly1CJFHKdJw When you’re going on a long trip, but monetary measures are short I reckon that unorthodox methods of cash gathering suddenly just springs to mind, in our case, the local house “gold mine”… the piggy bank and the copper coin bucket. I never really learned to spend change, change is something of a bother to me, it’s something that you don’t want but need to keep to be thrifty. And I certainly wouldn’t pay anyone with it, not yet at least, I need to wait another 40 years for that.

We’re trying to budget our trip to make it longer at the moment, how does one budget for a extended time away? We’ve got rough estimates about daily budgets from sites like Lonely Planet and The never ending voyage In the latter he brought his heavy fat macbook on the holiday to continue making websites, I’ve got my little netbook from dell, should we bring the mac, does that make us a target for robbery?

Sarah has compiled a small list of things we need for our journey. I’m scared with the “sterile syringe”, apparently its good to have and give to the doctor, to be safe, I don’t think doctors will take that as “you seem like a nice doctor, but I don’t think you’ve been taught hygiene”