With a possible change of plans, comes a re-thinking of my route and were I’ll go. Since I will likely only have one year or one year and a few months, I’ve been thinking about shorter trips in less countries. Maybe Asia or South America?
I’m leaning more to the asia idea, so I came up with a very basic itinerary;
- 1 Month in Indonesia
- 1 Month in Malaysia & Brunei
- 2 weeks in Singapore
- 1 Month in Thailand
- 1 Month in Laos & Cambodia
- 1 Month In Vietnam
- 1 Month, 2 weeks in China (East Coast)
- 2 Months in Japan
- 4 Months in India
That should satisfy my itchy feet for a while - at least enough to give me three or four years to finish university…then I’ll head back out for a real adventure.
When I’m traveling, I won’t have access to a computer all the time, so I’ll have to write posts up in bulk after the fact, so you’ll have a steady stream of new reading/listening/watching material. For example:
Basically you’ll read everything 2 weeks after It actually happens. This will give me time to make sure I don’t miss days for posts (though I’m sure this will end up happening) and to make sure I don’t need to worry about getting to an internet cafe at the end of every day.
So, to get into this habit, and to avoid a big gap in posts when i actually start traveling, I’ll start posting now two weeks in advance. This means you’ll see things two weeks late. You should see at least one post every day, though, which would mean there will be nearly 600 posts by the time I actually leave (wow!).
As anyone who actually reads this blog often (no one) will know, I will be taking an expensive laptop, camera, D-SLR camera and video camera with my on my trip around the world. This, it seems, is a problem for most insurance companies who want to insure a maximum of $5000 personal belongings, with a $750 item limit.
Luckily, I found “1cover.com.au” which will cover everything! They have the standard $5000 thing, but they let you specify extra items to cover - and their limit will allow me to specify everything I want to cover. Whoo! Granted, the cover is about $980 for one year but…I’ll take what I can get.
So if someone mugs me or something, I’ll be covered for all my (very valuable) equipment 
awesome.
As you may know, if anyone actually reads this blog, after my epic 20-month trip across Asia and Europe, I will eventually arrive in the UK, where I wish to attend University/College. I would really like to live in London, just because it looks downright awesome. So much culture and history, the food, the sights, the smells and the people - just everything.
So I was looking around at Universities and the like and I found the London College Of Communication. Quite frankly, it looks great. I’m interested in possibly either their Journalism or Film & Video courses. Maybe even Photography - I’ll just have to see what happens. Film & Video would help greatly in putting together a film/documentary of my travels using the footage I’ll have from my trip (hopefully using the nice JVC i posted about earlier)…
