In The Beginning

It all started with krispy kremes, then came sex and the city, and the gap.

my lifelong obsession with travelling to new york didn't start very long ago. Living away from home is kinda like travelling for me. Plus Australia comes with a good handful of mini states to visit for alot less. My last big trip was to sweden , and a convenient stopover in london, was paid for by work and that really made me think, wow free travel is awesome! I'll wait till the next one comes along ... That was 6 years ago and nothing has happened since.

This trip took years in the making ... let's go back to the start.

The year 2003 .... we thought just for fun one day over coffee, we need to do something great this year. Someone said, Hey let's go to new york for new years and watch the ball fall! Awesome! Fantastic! Time came and went, and we were still broke as. We were Dreamers.

Then came 2004 .... we brought it up again, maybe we can try for this year. Some of us found full time work, some haven't post-IT slump. My commitment started to wavier. I had too many wedding trips to fly to, my car needed a whole lot of fixing. The numbers dwindled. This year we were Slackers.

And now the year 2005 .... i was sick of waiting and doing nothing. I needed to get out of perth and see the world. Okay just one city for a start. This was the year i'm gonna use up all my annual leave (and then some). I gathered the troops, planted the seed once more and lo and behold! we all got off our procrastinating arses and booked tickets. This year, we were A Couple Of Thousands Poorer.

3 things i know about new york : donuts, carrie bradshaw and gap sweatshirts. Now i wanna know more ....