DAY1&2 (Austraaalia)

Wholly fuck, I knew I would do something extremely stupid at some point on this journey and yes today was the day. Within 24 hours of embarking on my 1 year trip my passport was destroyed. Who would have thought that leaving a paper document to soak in spilt alcohol would compromise its integrity. Day 2 has just come to an end and I was on the phone all morning, the prognosis was that I needed to get to Sydney (from Melbourne) to get a replacement at the jaw dropping cost of $AUS622 (seriously, does the NZ government need to pay for this stadium with internal affairs revenue), so yeah if anyone from QBE insurance is reading this then you will be expecting a rather unpleasant call from me in the next few days!

Foundations

This is just a little outline to let everyone know my rough travel plans and a bit about why I'm travelling....

Travel Plans:
Duration of between 1 and 1.5 years, definitely want to be back in NZ in May 2008 for Graduation. I realise that I have a fairly ambitious list of countries to get around, however the plan goes a little something like this:

1. Auckland, NZ
2. Melbourne, Australia
3. Bangkok, Thailand
4. Burma / Myanmar
5. Cambodia
6. Vietnam
7. Laos
8. Paris, France
9. Europe (not sure but definitely London, Ireland, Denmark, Germany)
10. Kenya
11. Mozambique
12. Tanzania
13. Argentina
14. Chile
15. Peru
    

Time in each place is totally dependant on what I think of the place when I get there and visa restrictions etc... However as an indicator I plan to spend about 3 months in each of South East Asia, Europe, Africa and South America.

Why:
This is a difficult question that I have put to myself and am slightly struggling to come up with any solid answers. The main feelings that come through are that I have enjoyed meeting travellers and international students at uni and have wanted to travel for so long I do forget my initial reasoning. Also after finishing uni last month I have realised that I do enjoy learning and this is just another method to keep developing. I also just want to have some fun and 'let my hair down'.

After all I hope that I can look back at the end of this journey and have a good laugh, say I enjoyed myself, consider myself a better person and probably fall over laughing when I read this posting.

Contact:
If anyone does want to contact me you have a two options, email is the best for non-urgent matters danzemail@gmail.com, skype is also good skype name: daniel.tombleson