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I usually start the planning for a trip ages before I actually go away. I work as much as I can and save as much money up as I can, so the planning part is the only thing that keeps me sane. I work a bit over 300 hours in 2 jobs and this probably for over 6 months. But I know all this work will have an end eventually and my goal (going travelling) is keeping me motivated.
So I have a lot of time on my hands in which I can think about what to take with me, where to go first, what to do, who to meet up with, and so on.

Here’s some points you might want to consider, especially if you’re a firsttimer:

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So you made it to my site…

Just finished my new style. There were loads of colours before. Don’t really remember why i liked that, but hey, site’s evolving and that’s a good thing. Nevertheless, it’s all very much under development.

I have booked my flight from Munich to Melbourne on the 17th of May 2007 (actually flying to London on the 17th and then on to Melbourne on the 20th). I thought that that’s not really a lot of time to finish Travel-Junkie.com, but right now there are only 6 points left to do. Those are (most definetly not in this order):

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3 cuttlefish on top of a coral boulder

Close-up of a cuttlefish eye

Beautiful 2spot Scorpionfish

While I was living on Gili Trawangan in Indonesia we had a few fires there. Three to be exact. It has been a while. I don’t remember everything that happened then, but I will tell it as I remember it.

I had just gone during lunch to the market to swap my old book for a new one. I had read almost every book of the two main bookstores and it took me a while to find one. The owner of the store got bored waiting for me I guess and went outside. After 5 minutes he came back all excited. He called to me pointed at the sky and told me to come outside. There was a huge black smoke column rising into the air and seemed to come from somewhere in town. I paid for my book. I overpaid him I think, but I wasn’t interested in bargaining, I wanted to see what was going on and if my house and stuff was safe.

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I should have known it was a bad omen when I arrived at the bus terminal in Da Nang, Vietnam, about 10 minutes after the bus was supposed to leave and there were about 2 people, 20 sacks of rice, 20 pairs of chicken, all on the road bundled together in twos, and a couple pigs just standing around waiting for something to happen. First I thought that the bus had left already and I tried asking the vietnamese guy if I was too late for the 7 o’clock bus.

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