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Facts: Fay (wife), Jeremy (son), Peta (daughter) and myself are heading to Santiago, Chile. Our other daughter Deb will join us when we get to Buenos Aires. We catch a plane out of Sydney at 10 am on Wednesday 1 Feb. It’s a 16 hour trip. Excitement is building. I’m writing this on Sat 21…about 11 days before we take off. How is my daughter Peta going to make it? She has to remove her stuff from the 2nd bedroom because she’s not returning to Dubbo. A guy has bought her furniture. Has he turned up to collect it? No. So, we’ve got Pete’s stuff semi packed up and looking like a tsunami has hit her bedroom. Brad, a young guy who is going to house sit for us, brought some of his stuff up today. We can’t put his stuff in the house till Pete leaves! Catch 22.

Fay is packed. That’s what you get for being a choleric/melancholy. Peta and I are both Sanguines! Up the Sanguines! Are we packed? No. Trouble is we sure need some help from the organised methodical ones in the family. Lucky the other 2 kids live in Sydney that’s all I can say.
After Buenos Aires we head for Iguacu Falls, then Curitiba, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Then it’s Lima, Machu Picchu, Iquitos and Bogota, Colombia. Deb will head back to Aust from Lima.

If we get through all that we then fly to Miami, arriving there on 15 March. It’s there we’ll farewell Peta and Jeremy and next see them in Australia when we return on & December. We have 22 weeks in USA/Canada.
Here’s the list of things we had to arrange prior to departure (I’ll probably forget some):
* Wills
* Power of attorney
* Tickets
* Visas
* Booking documents for hotels
* International drivers licences
* Driving record
* Organise mail delivery
* Baggage tags
* YHA membership
* SERVAS Host Lists
* Medication (this is unbelievable) and a letter from the doctor
* Vaccinations
* Puzzles and books to read on the plane.
* Necessary addresses and contacts
Is there anything you can think of that we might have missed?