It's decided - I'm finally heading off for a serious look at the world.
It all begins the sometime around the end of June (no set dates yet), when I'm off to New Zealand for about 5 months. I"m planning on spending winter in the mountains around Queenstown or Wanaka, tour upwards to the north island in September (earlier if I need to escape the cold) and loop back down south by October/November to do some hiking in the spring and back to Aus by early December.
Next year I'm wanting to head off to Canada on a working visa, living and working in the Rockies for a year. After my visa's up I can stay on as a tourist for a bit so will probably be away for at least one and a half to two years. While I'm there I'll most likely head up to the Yukon and even Nunavut, over to Alaska, and at some stage would like to check out more of the US like Yosemite and some of the southwest desert parks.
Not sure when I'll leave for Canada yet - want to get over there for the northern hemisphere spring so I get two summers rather than two winters. I'm also considering stopping over in South America on the way for a few months - head down south to Patagonia (maybe do a cruise to Antarctica while I'm there), see all the major sights like Iguazu Falls, Lake Titicaca, the Amazon rainforest and walk the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.
So that just leaves Asia and Africa as the only continents unaccounted for. Africa I'm saving up for last so I can do it justice, and I'll need to be in pretty good shape if I'm ever going to try and tackle Kilimanjaro. Asia I'll get to one day - got to get to the Himalayas at some stage, and India seems pretty interesting too.
So it looks like I'll be on the road pretty much as long as I can afford to be for the next few years. Will be getting a laptop so I can keep working from NZ, and to store the thousands of photos I'm likely to generate, so keep an eye out here and at my flickr site for the stories of my travels once I get going, and let me know if you're ever due to be passing through my part of the world, wherever that is at the time.
1 comment:
Wayne,
This is awesome. When are you coming back to the US? Don't forget that we have to climb the Rockies together in the near future. So when you go to Canada, you will have to make it back to the US.
Rico
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