Hi Carol,
Same here! Though I'm not going travelling, I'm going in the army soon. I'll do my travelling there!
How much can you say at the moment?
For the sake of me trying to learn, here's my Russian attempt (please correct, as I'm crap with sentence structure and.. well, everything at the moment!):
Привет, Карол!
Сколько стоит вы можете говорите сейчас?
Успехов изучении великого язык!