In the last update, I neglected to mention a few things that were important, since they were involved with purchasing the ticket.

Firstly, the price of the ticket was given in $AUD, not $USD. I am still working in AUD, and not quite sure what will happen after several months of dealing with $USD, I might find it easier to think that way. For the moment though, take all prices to be in $AUD. In fact, any price that does not have a foreign currency notation after it like “USD” or “pounds” or “lira” or “Real” to be Australian. There you go…

Secondly, since some people have joined the list since the email about the $1000 travel prize went out, I thought I should mention that the value of the prize has reduced the ticket price substantially for us, as you might imagine.

Thirdly, since there is funding for Trav to get to Brazil and back for the conference, and the value of a ticket from Melbourne to Sao Paulo to Melbourne is within a few hundred of a OneWorld RTW fare, we’re basically getting one ticket free, and discount off the other.

The final cost should therefore be $1129.50 ($587.34 USD) per ticket, with all the decreases in price.

Categories: Travel, Odyssey 2001