Richard Huntington
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... 
Travel Blog Posts
Manchester return...
Published: August 5th 2008Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater Manchester
August 5th 2008
...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, it seems we have travelled the world, met some amazing people, seen wonderful places and done once in a lifetime things. But now, it was almost over. The next time I would lie in a ... read more
July 10th 2008
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 headed in the correct direction in a matter of seconds!! In our time in American we had spent quite a long time bonding with Dino, the Ford Fusion that had got us around the massive ... read more
Caron City / Lake Tahoe / Graeagle
Published: August 5th 2008North America » United States » California » Lake Tahoe
July 10th 2008
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 had died away, leaving just a straight road through nothing but desert. This indeed was a long long road but it certainly wasn't winding. Possibly the longest and most boring drive of my life. But, ... read more
June 30th 2008
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 car. The latter seemed much more interesting! Equipped with our new car named Dino, we set off on the freeway headed south; destination Escondido - just outside of San Diego. This time me + Ross ... read more
June 26th 2008
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 LA at 1pm earlier in the same Tuesday! We had crossed the international date line! Pretty crazy concept how you can kinda go back in time. Mental... Touchdown in LAX and battled towards our hostel ... read more
June 24th 2008
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 the port to catch our first boat up to the Yasawa islands. The sky was a dark grey and a rainstorm seemed iminent... As predicted, when we arrived at our first island (Kuata) the heavens ... read more
June 9th 2008
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 from the ground all over the town. The steam is sulphur rich and so causes a bit of a pong in the air. One of the things that made us feel less guilty about leaving ... read more
June 9th 2008
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 museum "The Museum of New Zealand" and the building is pretty impressive; dominating the waterfront. We had a quick browse around and then found ourselves in a free acoustic concert with some Mauri fella. He ... read more
May 29th 2008
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 arrived in Queenstown. For months we have been hearing rave reviews of this place which is meant to be one of the best places on earth! If you were to do every single activity in ... read more
Lake Mahinapua and Franz Josef
Published: June 1st 2008Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Franz Josef
May 27th 2008
Departing from Westport the journey along the coast follows the Tasman sea and its many coves and bays. The road then turns inland and weaves through more mountains and then back out to the sea to Cape Foulwind where New Zealands's largest seal colony call their home. A pretty relaxed life from the seals lounging away on the rocks all day and basking in the sunshine. They seemed to be pretty used to the tourists taking their snaps and did some funny poses especially for us! A short drive further we stop at Punakaiki Pancake rocks for lunch and have a brief walk around the limestone towers that have been eroded by the sea over centuries. Not far from here is Greymouth which is one of the largest settlements on the westcoast which is only home ... read more
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