This diary of an ordinary middle aged couple tells the story of their amazing journey as they set off to travel around the world for two years on buses and trains. Finding themselves wondering why they were still in their West Yorkshire home whilst their three children were in far flung places of the world, in America, Australia and Indonesia they set off to visit them. On Friday 2nd January 2004, with no detailed plans or pre booked journeys, apart from a flight from Dublin to Atlanta in two week's time, depositing their door key back through their letter box they left everything behind, except for what they carried in their back-packs and walked to the local train station to embark on a journey of more than one hundred and nineteen thousand miles over thirteen months. It is a story of extraordinary journeys, intermingling with the daily lives of ordinary people, on ordinary buses and ordinary trains across Ireland, the United States of America, Canada, Mxico, Central America, South America, New Zealand and Australia. It is also a story of emotional turmoil and upheaval with all the excitement, euphoria and joy mixed with the uncertainties, fears and anxieties of the travelling life and being torn between the selfish right to one's own life and that of being available for others in their time of need.