Wanderlust

[fadagaski]

In the 5 minutes before I have to catch a bus for the start of my trip to Elgin (yay place I've never been!), I thought I would report that I have been plotting.

Since I was 14 I have yearned to go on a round the world trip. Things have popped up to detain me, genuine things that couldn't be avoided. Now, 10 years later, I'm dirt broke and about to embark on a 1 year teaching course followed by 1 year of UK teaching. This does not a travel-bunny make. However! It will provide the financial opportunities to explore the world or, as I like to say, 'bugger off somewhere else'.

I have therefore narrowed down my ideal route from 'the rest of the world' to an actual itinerary with estimated duration times and everything! Of course this is only the first of many trips. The first RTW ticket will take me to:

Hawaii for 2 weeks
New Zealand for 10 weeks
Australia for 14 weeks
South East Asia for 12 weeks
China for 6 weeks
Mongolia for 3 weeks
Russia for 3 weeks
Denmark for 2 weeks

The best thing about world-travelling at this scale is that times and dates are very flexible.

Eee! So excited! Can't wait for 2013 to come now!

Comments

[surrender-drthy.livejournal.com]

Not sure NZ is the place you want to be right now. Christchurch has been destroyed.

[fadagaski.livejournal.com]

Yes I know. It's awful. Hopefully by 2014 when I visit the city will have recovered enough to welcome tourism back. If not, the rest of New Zealand will suffice.

[surrender-drthy.livejournal.com]

I hope so. It's awful, not only because of the death.. but because it was such an incredibly beautiful city. I was there a few weeks after the earthquake in September last year, and while there were things that needed to be fixed... it wasn't destroyed. Now it truly is. I think, sadly, that this will have a lasting effect on the city - not only emotionally for the people, but for the shops, the tourists... the beauty. Hopefully one day it'll return to how it was only 5 months ago.
(But yes, the rest of NZ will be ready for you! - and let me know if you need a couch to crash on when you're in Auckland)

[shei.livejournal.com]

Ambitious!

[sistermu.livejournal.com]

Sounds great. SE Asia is a fantastic area, I'm longing to go back. I would suggest doing your itinerary in reverse order, though, travelling East nets you that extra day when you cross over the dateline. Also, I don't know Denmark very well, perhaps there is something specific you want to see, but I know we did most of Copenhagen in a couple of days, and so I'm not sure you would fill 2 weeks in the whole country. Unless, as I said, you have specifics in mind. Plus, you can get a train from Denmark to Sweden, only takes a couple of hours across the (extremely long) bridge.

It is good to have a goal. I must get some, myself.