Seattle, London, Bucharest, Istanbul

With unplanned stops in between. I'm ready to hit "Purchase" right now. It's all I can do not to click the commit button. I've even priced out the insurance. We decided shop for a company which will be the secondary pay-or on medical because when we FINALLY filled out the paperwork from the 2009 Vietnam fiasco and it really wasn't a big deal. Everyone paid up & we never hit the limit on our credit cards.

The Kayak website has a cool new Explorer interface. It shows a map of the world & the lowest general prices for a given month. Booking for travel is limited to today + 11 months. So, for example, today is July 31, 2010. I'd only be able to see pricing or make bookings thru July 30, 2011.

Dates of our trip: May 6 - May 28th. We're taking a Friday evening flight from Seattle to London so we can work that Friday & "gain" a day of trip. We'll spend a few days in London, then fly to Bucharest, Romania. The only other portion I'll be booking is the return from Istanbul, Turkey to Seattle. I have no idea what's going to happen In-Between at this point. Maybe I do this all backwards, but it gives me a framework to meander around the world in.

Turkey?

and I don't mean the bird.

Piggy bank started for 2011.