I left for what was intended to be a year of travelling in October 2010. After a few months on my way I decided that one year was nowhere near enough so abandoned my plans to return home and instead started bloating my mind with ideas, designs and places to go. I spent six weeks in South East Asia travelling around Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam before flying to New Zealand where I spent the majority of my seven weeks in Mount Maunganui volunteering on a dolphin research project where my days were spent out on a small boat tracking and studying dolphins and orcas. I still feel very priviliged to have been a part of that, especially considering it was entirely free. In December 2010 I flew to Melbourne, Australia and have been working and travelling my way around the country over the last seven months. I have travelled solely by hitching and as of today have hitched nearly 12,000km. I'm an advocate of hitching because it has provided me with some memorable experiences and great friends, as well as making travelling more affordable. When I left home last year I told friends and family I would start up a blog but never got around to it, although I have been writing little mock blog entries along the way that went unpublished. The purpose of this blog is to tell the stories that will come in the next few years but I will also belatedly post some of the stories from the last twelve months.

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