I am sure that he would love my company.
Either next to me on a plane for 24hrs, or at the same dinner table on a cruise for 24days.
Id say if one is paying anything is possible
My sister and BiL fly to Europe every winter (your summer), they take a 24~48 hour stopover in Singapore and speak very highly of the joint.
Always fancied a Euro river cruise so did one about 2017 down the Danube, total disaster. Rang the travel agents after 3 days (eight day cruise) and they got us a flight home from Frankfurt.
We all have dreams and bucket lists, some live up to expectations some don’t but the ones that do make up for the distance memory of the ones that don’t.
As they say everything is an experience
I think you misheard, they said expense.
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Making a life Seeing the world
Maybe it’s a wishing well the op needs sometimes that’s better than reality
Somebody has just told me my name has been ‘taken in vain’ 
, and that somebody wanted my advice.
I’ve heard that Palestine,.Iraq and Ukraine are nice this time of year for road trips.
(If the Middle East option is taken, tell him to be sure to pack his orange track suit…and his brown undercrackers.)
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Let us know mate.
@Frangers
Don’t go upsetting our shelias.
The www is available via Starlink and maybe other satellites all over the place nowadays.
No peace for the wicked
My dream would be as a supernumery (I think they are called), which is as a passenger on a freighter, cargoship, to get back to Oz. Very few, if any, other passengers, eating with the officers every night (as opposed to the deck crew mess room which was mine in a previous existence) and getting to many places, but slowly. Then a week or so ashore in interesting places away from the tourist ripoffs.
Sadly such things are no more I reckon, partly because of the massive reduction in the British Merchant Navy (but the Scandies were just as good if not better), but the reluctance of shipowners to risk old fogies on board with no doctor available and no insurance possible.
Looks like freighters still do carry passengers as before.
Whether there is a policy regarding age? I wouldn’t know.
So long as the passenger arranged insurance that satisfies the ship owners? Probably prohibitive costs.
If I have it right: freight boats could carry up to 12 passengers according to Lloyds rules? We did that as drivers on various boats, Gabriele Wehr, Skarvoy. Other ships such as the Purbeck and Traveller would have been registered as vehicle and passenger ferries, hence more than 12 drivers allowed. Although they didn’t carry cars and passengers they were not actually registered as freight only carriers.
Looks like only 20 to 30 crew all in on a container ship, so I don’t know how much separation there would be?
Those Sheilas would be in their mid 70’s now.
Mini Moke is rare as hen’s teeth now.
Smoking ciggies at fuel stops?
If the fuel tank was full then no risk at all…
What’s the pick-up at 20min00-ish?
EJ or EH Holden. Similar vehicles, the latter introduced the new Australian designed “red” motor with optional 149 or 179 cubic inch capacity, superseding the Chev based 132cu" grey motor.
The EH received minor body modifications to the grill, bonnet, roofline and tail lights. The EH utes and panel vans were unchanged from the doors back.
Morris 1500?
My Uncle had Austin and Morris 1100s and a 1300, never heard of a 1500 though.
Presumably built only for the export market?
Or built at Zetland, Sydney for the domestic and Oceania, by BMC Australia.
Lots of revision going on here now.
Health insurance is not so easy after 65…
Now retired so have the time to do a long trip, but insurers don’t like us oldies doing that. Not impossible but filling in forms on different sites trying to alter dates, possible countries on the itinerary is not my idea of fun.
I knew the USA (Hawaii) was going to up the price, but some companies will include that as part of a short trip, but not as part of a longer trip.
Playing about now with mix’n’match of different policies.
Since Canada/US was not part of the original idea, that may well be shelved.
Wet and windy…and the weather is no better here… Back to the search.
I have never, in the whole of my fairly long life, had any kind of travel insurance and certainly do not propose to start now, so perhaps it is just as well that I have no real desire to go anywhere else. I am supremely content to remain here for ever.
I suppose you could sum it up as ‘que sera sera’, ‘whatever will be will be’ . I reckon good old Doris Day had it just right.
I’m not too fussed about getting a few grand compensation if a flight is a few minutes late, and will not be taking my designer silk suits and hand made shoes with me, so not fussed on baggage insurance, but apparently all procedures in US hospitals start with a walletectomy.
Aussie has a reciprocal arrangement with the UK for emergency health care so that looks OK. Adding in health care for the USA is putting £s on the bill. Issues with India, Thailand, Singapore too.
Insurance for a whole trip to the US may be worth it, but not for a few days stopover.
I am trying to understand where the limits of each policy are, to get a good deal without paying hundreds in insurance for a few days stay.
Edit. They don’t like oldies, pre-existing conditions, and trips if over 45 days or so or in a year.