Hello!

Most of you will have been directed here by me - thanks for coming - if not, thanks for coming anyway.

I am Derek, and I'm a Kiwi currently living in London.
In June 2007, I left home to set off on a 4 1/2 month sortie around Europe via the USA, and set up this blog so that friends, family and randoms could keep track of where I have been and the shenanigans I would inevitably get up to.
In the main it has been largely successful, and I have ended up putting a lot more effort into it than originally thought, and updating and maintaining it has suddenly become something I am sort of passionate about and something I don't mind showing off ;-)

Travelling, is something I have also become sort of passionate about, and the aforementioned sortie has since inspired me to see as much of the world as I can.
Fortunately, the fact that I'm now based in London will now mean that many, many more trips will be on the agenda.
Therefore I decided that I might as well keep this up - so any trip that I make from now on deemed blogworthy enough, will have it's very own entry in this blog be it a weekender or another 4 1/2 month bender.

The blog starts from the first entry in New Zealand before I left the country, and the following 34 entries thereafter follows my journey through the US and Europe, with each blog entry giving fairly vivid and detailed accounts of everything that happened along the way, as well as providing a little bit of background and insight of each place.

These are my travelling memoirs - memories of the places I've been, the people I've met and the experiences I've had - and I hope you enjoy them.
If you take anything from them, be it travel advice, a dash of inspiration, images of lands far away, or just a plain good read, I will consider my job done.

Enjoy.

Cheers,
Derek

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