Category: Travel
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Since the one year anniversary of my 2012-2013 World Trip I’ve been actively planning the next places to visit in the amazing world. Fellow travellers gave me some great ideas, India, North Korea, Vietnam, Turkey and Croatia among them. In the end I thought it was time to go back to Africa having previously only…
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I guess I’ve always known that goals help focus me. It’s not like I achieve them all, running a half marathon is looking unlikely, but as they say its the journey that really matters. Well a colleague got me thinking the 100 country club, basically visiting 100 countries. I travel because I want to see…
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Between 1999 and 2013 I have been fortunate enough to visit 50 different countries and see some really amazing things. Yesterday I was asked what was my favourite place and it took my a while to gather my thoughts but I enjoyed the trip down memory lane so I decided to make a top 5…
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All world trips should be amazing especially the experiences you have during them however I also love the planning and the remembering aspect of such trips. This blog entry is to help me recall the trip and is Part 4 covering the Sights. There are 4 different aspects to my world adventure I’m going to…
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All world trips should be amazing especially the experiences you have during them however I also love the planning and the remembering aspect of such trips. This blog entry is to help me recall the trip and is Part 3 covering the Sights. There are 4 different aspects to my world adventure I’m going to…
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All world trips should be amazing especially the experiences you have during them however I also love the planning and the remembering aspect of such trips. This blog entry is to help me recall the trip and is Part 2 covering the Sights. There are 4 different aspects to my world adventure I’m going to…
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I have now been back in Australia for over 2 weeks struggling with the return to ‘real’ life or what could be thought of as a distraction from the great joys life can bring. The common question you get when returning home is ‘What was the highlight?’ which is no easy question to answer when…
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Wednesday 13 February 2013 Highlights: 16 hour flight (Dallas to Brisbane), my bed back home. Because of the international date line Tuesday basically didn’t exist for me as I undertook the worlds longest plane trip back to Australia at 16 hour 15 minute and 13,363 kilometres, but luckily for me I had a business class seat…
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Monday 11 February 2013 Highlights: Great nights sleep, seeing Qantas Plane! A great nights sleep in a very comfortable bed. The included cooked to order breakfast was very nice – Embassy Suites are a very good hotel option. Checkout was supposed to be noon but reception let me push this back to 2 pm which…
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Sunday 10 February 2013. Highlights: Flight back to USA and easy Border Control experience! I woke up earlier than my alarm with not enough time to get to sleep again so I just waited a while before hitting the shower. This turned out not to be ideal as my pickup driver turned up 20 minutes…
