Plane Tickets

 
Well guess what us silly buggers have gone and done!! We’ve only bought our bloomin’ plane tickets to India!! We’re definitely going now... no backing out.

Our first payment was for the entry fee itself, many moons ago. It was a charitable donation to those friendly Adventurists for arranging everything and so that we could get our name on the board before any other thrill-seeking loons. That was one thing – we could back out of that, cower away from the challenge with proverbial tails tucked between legs and exclaim: “My God, for a minute there I thought I wanted to travel across India in a rickshaw. Whew! That was mad wasn't it!”

Now, though, we’ve paid Air India a chunky sum of money and there’s no backing out of that! After confirming with our bank managers that no sneaky fellow has hacked into our accounts and that we are indeed travelling to India ourselves, there just remains the rest of the tricky little payments and jobs to consider before the big off.

The Adventurists have been dashed helpful over the last few months, sending cheerful and encouraging emails.

They’ve told us where to get our health insurance (God knows how they’ve found someone crazy enough to insure this monumentally dangerous challenge), they’ve told us about the perils of the road, of the need for an International Driving Licence, for numerous vaccinations and for the visa to get us into India in the first place. All these challenges still await us in the upcoming month or so. We shall keep you updated as we progress through these little bumps in the road. But for now, let us savour this glorious moment, this point of no return.

We’re all bloody excited I can tell you.
Well, excited and occasionally terrified and out of our depth. But that’s often a damned fine place to be!