Huntington - Richard Huntington

This is my blog page!! Welcome...

I have set up this page with the intention of keeping in contact with everyone back at home whilst I am off on my travels around the world. I hope that I keep it regularly updated with all my latest stories and blogs, so that you can track my progess and get a taste of my experience. I also want to make you all jealous...

Just to run through the schedule in brief (in case you are not aware) :
Manchester to London - London to Beijing - Beijing overland to Hong Kong - Hong Kong to Bangkok - Bangkok overland to Singapore - Singapore to Cairns - Cairns overland to Sydney - Sydney to Christchurch - Christchurch overland to Auckland - Auckland to Nadi - Nadi to Los Angeles - Los Angeles overland to San Francisco

Undoubtedly you will be reading this whilst taking a quick 10 minute time-out from your everyday life. I decided to take a while longer out of my everyday life (6 months infact) and go and see new places, meet new people, eat new food, drink new beers and basically explore other cultures and burst the Wilmslow bubble...

My fellow comrades are:
Nick Lees
Jonny Lees
James Caroll
Ross Macfarlane

Should I encounter problems in uploading my millions of award-winning photos on TravelBlog I will use my Facebook page - Ricks Facebook

Please leave me some feedback as I most certainly will miss everyone at home, although not nearly as much as you will all miss me!

Enjoy...

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By Huntington
August 5th 2008

Manchester return... Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater Manchester

Welcome home...

...And the bags did arrive. Touchdown in a gloriously drizzly Manchester. Typical. What a welcome home... Totally bittersweet. Good to see everyone. Nice to be home. Home comforts and all that jazz. But, where is the adventure? The unknown? Kinda grim and Im writing this 3 weeks after our return and it still feels the same. The last night was strange. No jokes. The last time we would be sleeping in a dorm together. Thousands of miles away from home. Away. On our own. On our adventure. The past six months have come and gone. In the blink of an eye, [View Full Entry]

By Huntington
July 10th 2008

San Francisco North America » United States » California » San Francisco

A Golden moment

The final leg of the journey was relatively short and we certainly knew we had arrived in San Francisco when we had to cross the Bay Bridge and then the infamous Golden Gate Bridge - all accompanied by the song of 'San Francisco' by Scott McKenzie. The journey was all relatively straight forward. All until we got into downtown which is a maze of one-way streets and I turned down one. The wrong way! Ha! I thought it was slightly strange that the other car was coming head first towards me... Luckily enough I managed to pull in and we were [View Full Entry]

By Huntington
July 10th 2008

Caron City / Lake Tahoe / Graeagle North America » United States » California » Lake Tahoe

Lunch on Tahoe

Early morning, on the road and I was behind the wheel. US route 395 was the road that was to take us the majority of the way to our next destination which was Carson City in Nevada. This may sound like a strange place to visit and I guess it kinda is. But for the fact that James also has family there that had invited us to stay, we probably wouldn't have gone. It infact turned out to be some of the best times we had in the US of A. After a 2 hour drive almost any form of civilisation [View Full Entry]

By Huntington
June 30th 2008

San Diego North America » United States » California » San Diego

Roadtrip continues...

Hello there! Aplogies to any dedicated followers who have been left wondering where I am and what I've been up to. Since writing my last blog I have touched down in 'sunny England' and so I am now actually home. The reason for the delay being I have had no motivation to do anything as everything at home seems so uninteresting. However, I have defeated the lazy urges and decided to conclude my travel blog. So...having explored LA the next leg of our journey was down to San Diego. To get there we could either catch a bus or hrie a [View Full Entry]

By Huntington
June 26th 2008

Los Angeles North America » United States » California » Los Angeles

Welcome to Hollywood

Farewell to Fiji and our last country of our GYC adventures :( Our last stop however is "the best country in the world" (or so they think...) and also the land where not only the people are HUGE but everything is. Of course, its the US of A and where better to start our west-coast journey than in 'The City of Angels' - Los Angeles... Before we could plant our feet on American soil we had to endure a long and unconventional day as it had 44 hours in it. We left Fiji at 10pm on a Tuesday and arrived in [View Full Entry]

By Huntington
June 24th 2008

Fiji Oceania » Fiji

Fun in Fiji

Bula Fiji - the land of the emerald island and turquoise waters. Where life is not governed by time; only by sunshine... The dreams of white sanded beaches was soon to come true. All we had to do first was endure the small flight from the cold New Zealand to Fiji and we would soon be losing the hoodies and trousers and donning the bare chests and flowery shorts. Time for some relaxation... Our island hopping adventures didnt get off to the best of starts. We stayed our first night on Viti Levu (mainland) and then left the next morning to [View Full Entry]

By Huntington
June 9th 2008

Auckland Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland

Auckland Skytower

Travel onwards and Auckland is on the horizon. First though, is a brief stop in the foul odoured Rotorua where we would have stayed if we had slightly more time. We were pretty gutted to be missing the Mauri tribal evening and also our final chance to do some white water rafting which we have now missed Thats life though and unfortunately we cant do everything so we caught a little Mauri talk from some crazy woman who seemed to be a fiend for eating the bark of trees. Nice. We then saw a few of the hot geezers that break [View Full Entry]

By Huntington
June 9th 2008

Wellington and Taupo Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Wellington

All Blacks

Our travel to Wellington involved a bumpy flight through the wind in the early hours. We were all pretty sleepy (even if we did sleep in a bed at the airport!) and so upon arrival in the capital we found a hostel and immediately crashed out before going to explore and attend the one thing we were looking forward to in Wellington - the All Blacks game versus Ireland... Slightly rejuvinated, we wandered down the central street and headed towards the waterfront where we found a free museum (Te Papa) which was pretty cool. A huge government investment has made this [View Full Entry]

By Huntington
May 29th 2008

Queenstown and Wanaka Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Queenstown

Hello Queenstown!

The highlight of this blog is undoubtedly Queenstown - possibly one of the best places on earth. Before I delve into that I will inform you that we spent a rather uneventful night in Wanaka; the town which didnt really have much to it save for a nice lake and a decent curry house. We had a chilled night with the Kiwi crew; playing cards and shooting pool - getting a good sleep ahead of our onward journey to the traveller capital of the south island. After our many single nights along the west coast blessed with fantastic weather we eventually [View Full Entry]

By Huntington
May 27th 2008

Christchurch and Kaikoura Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Kaikoura

Celebratory meal

Our time in Australia has passed and the next destination is of course New Zealand. Our travel plans had been slightly ammended to accomodate the Champions League final and so we arrived in Christchurch 1 day early. However, we were 1 member short. That person being Nick Lees who has foolishly left his passport behind in Byron Bay and therefore had to commute from Sydney all the way back up there - 13 hour bus journey! Consequently he missed the flight and had to join us 1 day later after one of the most nervous football matches ever... We checked into [View Full Entry]

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