Christy Parry Photography

Frequent Flyer Points

christy — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:32:32 +0000

I’m so glad we decided to earn points for travel through credit cards in the last 6 months….both Nicole and I have earned about 150,000 points each just for opening up a few new cards and meeting the minimum spending requirements. Our flight from Singapore to Mumbai took about 26,000 if that gives you any idea how far the points can get you, so considering that we’ll be taking a lot of trains in the future, we may not be actually be paying for many more flights.

Hell yeah! Now if only I wasn’t scared to death of flying…

36 days til departure!!

christy — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:48:46 +0000

Acquired this little drawing recently, it’s healing up nicely!

and yes, it hurt.

…some more impulsiveness

christy — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:15:44 +0000

Excited, we just booked another leg of our journey…after Singapore we’re going to cut over to Europe in order to avoid the rainy season in southeast Asia/to be warm while in Europe. On the way, however, we’re going to stop for a few weeks in India! After a few months in Europe/the middle east we’ll head back to southeast Asia via train.

Only 2 more months until we leave, so much to do…

Happy Halloween!

christy — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:11:59 +0000

I’m on a boat!

christy — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:15:03 +0000

I went on my first cruise for a wedding this past week to the Bahamas! My favorite part was visiting the Ardastra Zoo in Nassau, the flamingos were roaming free…

countdown!

christy — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:30:07 +0000

christy — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:33:16 +0000

Leave all your love and your longing behind

you can’t carry it with you if you want to survive

Selling prints

christy — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:05:53 +0000

In an effort to start raising some money to contribute to my round the world trip, I thought I’d sell some prints! I have a Flickr photogallery with pics and prices here, or anything from my facebook is up for grabs as well, and of course I’m doing as many shoots as possible over the next 4.5 months. Thanks so much for the help and support!!

Round the world (the beginning)

christy — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:21:46 +0000

So Nicole and I have made the first official step towards our round the world trip, which will take place beginning in March of 2012 (just four and a half short months away!!). We purchased the plane tickets for the first leg of the trip! Here is our itinerary thus far:

(doodling while talking to Sarah, our awesome travel agent at Airtreks)

March 1st we leave Atlanta and fly to Nadi, Fiji (with a brief layover in LA). After about 5 days in Fiji we hop a flight to Auckland, New Zealand, where we will spend about 3 weeks doing whatever we see fit, eventually making our way overland down to Christchurch. From Christchurch we fly to Sydney, Australia, and again spend 3 weeks wandering around getting lost and most likely sunburned. We’ll make our way overland to Cairns, flying from there to Bali, Indonesia. Again, 3 weeks to explore and then explore some more. Overland to Jakarta, then hop another flight to Singapore. From that point on, we are planning to travel overland up through Malaysia to Thailand and then will run all over the place there (including diverting over to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia). Trains, buses, animals, whatever.

We don’t have too much of a clue as to what we are going to do in all of these places just yet, but I’m fairly certain we will figure it out at some point. There will be some planning, and probably a whole lot of “winging it.” Time for more research and advice from friends/fellow travelers. We’re looking into all kinds of online travel communities (couchsurfing.com, workaway.info, wwoof.org) and I seem to be watching The Darjeeling Limited (India is later) a couple of times a week, so we should be good. Throw a few malaria pills in there and we’re set. I’ve got a house to move out of, stuff to get rid of, and last minute funds to procure. Let the countdown begin!

Cocoa Beach

christy — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:21:46 +0000