around the world in more than 80 days

nickb

Nick is a 22-year-old from the balmy paradise of Brisbane and used to think all he ever wanted to do was watch DVD audio commentary, read about ways to make his bank account bigger and have long, meandering conversations with anyone who would listen. Nick achieved this goal pretty early and enjoyed it for a while, but eventually realised there might be other stuff he was missing out on. In 2010 he fantasised about quitting his job and using the money he had saved to wander around Central Asia. He made this blog to recap his early journeys and to keep the family updated about where in the world he is. Nick is studying speaking the language of Spanish and one day hopes to carry a conversation with a Hispanophone. Interestingly, this isn’t the first thing he has ever tried to study.
Nick has spent a majority of his adult life driving around in a piece of crap car. He is not rich by any means but can afford to go overseas more often than not because the piece of crap car is actually kind of fuel-efficient. Nick is right handed. When he was younger he could run over ten kilometres without stopping once. Sadly, lifestyle choices during adolescence made Nick’s body less conducive to rigorous exercise. Nick has many different passwords for a variety of different systems and the thought of forgetting one of them one day causes a lot him a lot of stress. He usually plays his music on his Ipod to cope with this anxiety. Nick has never lost a contest with anyone who has tried to tell him their piercings or tattoos were more painful than his eyebrow ring. He has been falsely accused of cheating in the game of Monopoly more than once. A lot of people think Nick is obsessive-compulsive assumingly because he freaks out when someone takes his DVD collection out of alphabetical order. He suffers from Aichmophobia, Lachanophobia, Thanatophobia, Kakorrhaphiophobia and a condition which makes his nipples go through a lot of pain during aforementioned exercise. Nick plans to visit each of the sovereign states in the entire world. To begin to save for this he managed to spend the night stone cold sober. Believe me, he was as surprised as you.