This is the first blog post of the new goonies website! The intention of the site is to help us spread news about our going ons whilst globetrotting to family, friends and other keen travellers. It will also be our a diary containing photos, videos and a blog allowing us too look back at the crazy times we will have had!

So a little background on how this has all come together… I think me and Kev had a small chat about us two travelling in a Uni bar called Woody’s during our last year of uni. Then, after that nothing much was said and it seemed to be lost in the back of our minds while we were thinking of life after Uni. It was brought up again here and there, but nothing really materialised. After we met up a few times and it wasn’t until we were at Reading Festival where we was started to talk about it again. Here we raised two more potential travellers joining the original two. These were Chris and my twin Mike.

It just seemed like it was just a load of talk about travelling, with doubtful minds as to whether this was going to happen. But this soon changed after a meeting was finally arranged to establish an action plan to get the cogs in motion for this once in a lifetime adventure. The Dog and Partridge was the chosen venue that will mark this significant step in the The Goonies World Tour 2007-2008 process.

We all arrived in a fairly packed pub armed with notepads and pens, a world map and a lonely planet guide to the USA. It just so happens that Kev had a copy and thought it was a useful resource despite being a WORLD tour. But credit goes to Kev as the guide was pretty damn useful! The guide gave us a mass of ideas to at least plan a rough route for the epic road trip across America inspired by the classic Harleys! From there we continued to deliberate over where else to go in the world and ideas were building.

Collectively, I can say the group was very excited and all we had was a very rough plan for America. We still have to plan for the rest of North America, South America, the Pacific Areas and Asia! Just thinking about the potential felt good!

The excitement just made us day dream and talk more about the things we could be doing when we are out there rather than planning things to make them happen! But that doesn’t matter. This gave us an insight of how amazing and magnificent this world tour is going to be. It gave us motivation to start initiating research in to locations, costs plus more to turn a dream into a reality. It looks like there’s commitment from all of us and I’m happy to announce that the Goonies World Tour has got the green light to go!