Trousers - Mark Towner

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Im just about to set off an a overland trip from Canada to Chile. Very Exciting!

I've done 2 big trips around the world; 1. US coast to coast, Hawaii, Cook Isles, Raratonga, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia (living in Sydney for a year) with trips up the east coast, a side trip to Thailand and then through center to Darwin, Indodesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Sumatra, Sweden and back to the UK.
A few side trips to Canada, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia again before setting off for
2. Sweden, Finland, Russia, trans-Mongolia to Ulan Bator and the Gobi Desert, China for 2 months, HK, Thailand and then living in NZ for a year, back to Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, China, HK, NY for a week and then home.
Last year I had a month in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam again.
Hankering after another year (or two) on the road again now! :)
2006 was a good year, a week in France, a Month in Ghana, a week in Ireland, a week in Cairo, a month in Uganda and most recently a month in India. Think that will do for a year.....

Most of the early entries are very basic, I will be trying to move my journal entries over when I can.

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By Trousers
March 22nd 2006

Dry and Dusty Africa » Ghana » Northern » Tamale

Stow that bike!
Getting 60 people on a little boat may take a while.

The next stop was Tamale, but we had quite a journey ahead of us to get there. For starters we were on the wrong side of the lake, and our choices were a car ferry at 9pm, or a people boat at 7am. We were strongly advised to get the earlier one, and I guess that was the best choice. Earlier start = sooner to town. Most of the germans had come to the hotel too, but they all had an early night, not like us party animals! But we saw them all at breakfast, which was a greasy omlette on [View Full Entry]

By Trousers
March 20th 2006

Salty dogs Africa » Ghana » Volta

Lake Volta

I got up at 11am and packed, checked out at noon but was pretty hungry. I woke up with a pain in my stomach though, it felt like there was a brick in my stomach, obviously something I had hadn't agreed with me. I had a bit of a headache too, but no fever. Still, it didn't seem like such a great idea going on a ferry for a day and a half if I was going to be ill. I generally don't get ill when Im away, I had a few loose 'movements' the week before, but nothing to stop [View Full Entry]

By Trousers
March 19th 2006

Recovery Africa » Ghana » Greater Accra » Accra

Dragged myself out of bed in the afternoon and got myself back down to Osu to buy a charger for my gadgets. I'd found one the previous day in a camera shop which would do it but didn't want to carry it around all day. I bumped into the yannks playing Jazz from the previous night and got chatting about what they were doing and what I was doing and they'd done the boat trip up the Volta Lake recently and told me the guide book was wrong about the times. The ferry leaves in the afternoon, not the morning, so [View Full Entry]

By Trousers
March 18th 2006

Bongos, Be-Bop and Strawberries Africa » Ghana » Greater Accra » Accra

Habib Koite

As drunk as I was I still had something to remember, the place to meet for the following night. I got Jo to shout it into my camera as a video so I would remember. But first I needed some food to recover so I heading back to Osu for a bad coffee, terrible sandwich and dodgy cake. For about £4, but thats hangovers for you. I didn't get up until about 2pm so it was already late. I just hung out reading in the food court, watching the kids have birthday parties reading on the phone. I went to use [View Full Entry]

By Trousers
March 17th 2006

17th -Dirty old town Africa » Ghana » Greater Accra » Accra

Swedish dancing experts

Beep! beep! went my alarm the next morning but in the background the noise of rain meant I had a legitimate excuse not to get up and go and see the Cape Coast castle. These slaving forts are the African equivalent of Asian temples and you need to see a few before you can be considered a tourist, but this one would have to wait. I wasn't sure what time the bus would be leaving but I guessed it would be best not to hang around too late, being Friday and all. I am a foolish boy and should have bought [View Full Entry]

By Trousers
March 16th 2006

16th -Im walking in the Air Africa » Ghana » Central » Cape Coast

Walkway

Today was the big day I was going to do something touristy! I didn't get up very early after getting into 'The Da Vinci Code' which I hadn't read before. After a quick lunch of egg sandwiches on the roof I jumped into a taxi for the 40km ride to Kakum National Park. I got there for pretty much the last walk of the day, flashed my student card for my discount and hung around the museum waiting for my guide. We had a good chat about our lives while walking up to the canopy walkway a couple of Canadians had [View Full Entry]

By Trousers
March 15th 2006

15th - On the road again Africa » Ghana » Central » Cape Coast

Cape Coast

The girls were heading east back to Accra and then the east coast and I was going back to Cape Coast to see the rainforest so our paths we together for a while. They dropped their bags of at my room to wake me up and pack while they hiked over to see the castle. They didn't get robbed either, stupid guidebook! I got my shit together, paid for my room and when they got back went and got a taxi. Nana was very sad to see us go, but I promised I'd see him again as I decided Busua would [View Full Entry]

By Trousers
March 14th 2006

14th - Waste of a day Africa » Ghana

I got up feeling fine, I hadn't drunk that much to feel bad the next day and Ghanaian beer hasn't given me a hangover yet, obviously I need to do some more research! I found the girls eating breakfast by the beach in my hotel, the local guy chatting them up wasn't very happy to see me but I think they were. It's not fun to be the victim of unwanted attention all the time and they had a understanding sympathizer in me after being stalked for 2 days! Tua was a it worse for wear and had drunk just [View Full Entry]

By Trousers
March 13th 2006

13th - Money? Africa » Ghana

When I woke up, the bikini was gone! Not quite as funny as my crap joke about dreaming I was eating a giant marshmallow and when I woke up my pillow was gone, but i felt a huge weight lift from my shoulders. Not taking any chances I skipped breakfast (couldn't afford it anyway) and skipped all the way to the next village. My guidebook said lots of people got robbed on the way there so I left everything behind apart from a few quid in my pocket and pinned a bit more emergency cash inside my shorts. I think this [View Full Entry]

By Trousers
March 12th 2006

12th - Being a bastard, all day. Africa » Ghana

Nana

tap tap tap.... tap tap tap.... tap tap tap.... oh god, no prizes for guessing who was knocking on my door. I was buggered if i was getting up or even answering, I was on holiday! There was an outside chance it was someone from the hotel but I wasn't going to rick making a sound. Eventually it stopped and I went back to sleep. I had already bee woken up twice that morning. It was early and the sun was shining when my fan went off. I had it tucked under my mosquito net, since even on high it [View Full Entry]

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