After four and a half years of preparation, we are now only one month away from changing our lives forever.

On the last day of February we will walk out of the office and retire from the IT industry for good. On the first decent wind in March, we will sail away north east from the Pittwater mooring that has been our home for the last six months, and begin our voyage around Australia.

How long will we be sailing? Where will we end up? What will we do when we get back? Will we ever "get back"? We don't have answers to any of these questions, although we do have many different ideas and plans for the future. The one thing that we can be sure of, is that we're going to have a wonderful adventure, and nothing will ever be the same again.

ADDENDUM 2010

While we were cruising, we temporarily changed for technical reasons to a different blogging tool. This worked very well while we were actually moving, but when we got back, we wanted to start using the Virtual Reinhard again, but all the cruising blog entries were somewhere else. For this reason, I took all the blog entries for our trip and turned them into a full-colour book.

You can download the book from here (8.7 Mb)

You can view the original blog (on Google's Blogger) here.