Eaten by lions or worse

E-mailed Dad today to see what he thought about the big plan. I haven't really had much chance to talk to him about it in-depth yet. He replied: "Who do you think you are - Alan Whicker?"

He thinks it would be much better all round if we could find a way to do it safely, avoid dangerous countries and, preferably, come home every weekend :-)

It is quite a selfish thing to want to do I suppose. I know in reality we could be back home in a couple of days - even from somewhere remote - if anything were to go wrong at home or if we really weren't enjoying ourselves. I know I'd miss everybody terribly.

So many unknowns - but I really don't know how I'm going to react to having no home to speak of and I how I'm going to feel without family close by. But as Lara wrote to me today - you have to commit to the unknown sometimes.