Pre-Flight Checklist

Hi everyone and thanks for visiting my blog!

For those of you who don't know, I'm leaving Canada in two days, and heading out on a six week trip to England, Australia and Malaysia (I haven't even started packing yet!). The real reason for this trip is to see family on my mom's side, as I haven't even met some of my relatives! The timing couldn't have been any more perfect since we were able to schedule it so mostly everyone could be together. The plan is to spend four days in Manchester, UK, about ten days in Perth, Australia and the remainder of the time touring through East and West Malaysia. And yes, I have family in each of those places.

I will be updating this blog as often as I can and only if I have an internet connection available (some of the rural parts of Malaysia that I will be visiting don't even have running water, let alone electricity and internet) so keep checking back if you don't see anything posted for a few days.

By the way, I know some of you keen readers would also realize the irony in my blog title, as the majority of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, died in a plane crash back in '77). Enjoy reading and drop me a line.

Simon