All this kicks off on the 28th July 2008, the year of the Rat if I’m not mistaken! So good bye England, good bye job, friends, family, rain and hello sun, sea, sand and adventure…

Round the world in 365 days stopping off at:
Thailand-->Laos-->Vietnam-->Cambodia-->Thailand(again)-->Malaysia-->Singapore-->Malaysia-->Singapore-->Indonesia-->Singapore-->Australia-->New Zealand-->Cook Islands-->America-->England…

Date I left the UK: 28th July 2008
Expected arrival date back in the UK: 27th July 2009

It’s finally happened, all that talk of travelling around the world wasn’t just talk! I’m off to the land of the Thai’s first of all. But not for the first time, more of the same same but different and no doubt windmill fuelled dancing madness at the full moon party again is to be expected.

I’ll try to keep it all up-to-date but if I forget or I’m somewhere without internet, (I know, scary) I haven’t gone missing, I’m just busy, no doubt sitting on a beach sipping a cocktail out of a coconut!

Highlights of my trip so far.
- Full Moon Party - sweat band madness (Thailand)
- Camping on The Beach, Maya Bay (Thailand)
- Trekking in Chiang Mai (Thailand)
- Tubing, donuts, whiskey and rope swings + Dentist Chair (Laos)
- Nha Trang - the mighty Vinpearl (Vietnam)
- Rock climbing - RaiLay (Thailand)
- Angkor Wat - History at it’s most epic (Cambodia)
- Meeting Helen in Nha Trang (Vietnam)
- Meeting Helen in Thailand
- Diving SDI course in Nha Trang (Vietnam)
- Diving with turtles at the Gili Islands (Indonesia)
- New Years Eve in Sydney (Australia)
- Seeing a penguin in Sydney harbour (Australia)
- Kayaking down the Me Kong River and falling out on every rapids (Laos)
- Big Budda jeep drive, Jay knows what I’m talking about! (Thailand)
- SE Asia transportation
- Could go on forever so I’ll stop for now…

Lowlights of my trip so far.
- 30 hours on a bus (Laoes to Vietnam)
- 28 hours on a bus (Thailand to Laos)
- Death scooter ride, knee and foot injuries!
- Dam rude Indonesian’s people
- Stress to the max of getting a job and a place to live in Oz
- SE Asia transportation
- Ordering some food and been given desert or something else equally random

What I’ve learned from my travels so far...
- The less rules there are on the road the less accidents there seems to be
- The higher the price the lower the offer for it and just go from there
- The walk away tactic when bartering, ALWAYS lowers the price by at least half
- Asian’s can’t sing as demonstrated by there love and my hate of Karaoke
- 7/eleven’s are lifesavers at times of intense heat -A/C for free!
- It isn’t possible to get bored of just sitting on the beach
- SEA scooter accidents will happen, just close your eyes and hope for the best!
- Squat toilets aren’t fun when drunk and in need of a movement!
- SE Asians have no spatial awareness and walk right into you even though you are about 3 times as big and taking up most of the pavement with your gigantic backpack on.
- Roads are now death walks but I have come to realise cars will always go around you if they can…
- Queue’s just don’t exist anywhere but the UK, so now I just barge my way to the front of most queue’s, unless another western gigantor beats me to it!

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