PS: Regards the original main flights from Vancouver/Oz and back ... the tickets were a special deal and rates and therefore can only be used by me personally (non transferable) and no refunds, and no changing routes but ticket naturally expires about mid January 2008.

It would have been great to make this trip a go still, rather than kiss the original tickets goodbye, but it just isn't feasable because of the new costs and health stuff and other considerations. I wish it were different but there you go. I'd like to make the best of things now.

Karmen