Can’t believe that I have been travelling already for six months. Time flies when you’re having fun, right? Anyway, time to have a look at that past half year….
Some of the things that happened or that I did:
- Bought a car in Australia, drove it for 7000 km and then wrecked it!
- Watched two sperm whales, five pigs and one turtle get hunted, killed and gutted in Indonesia
- Had 9.473 unique visitors, which isn’t that much really, but my thanks go out to those boys and girls that do drop in for a visit and maybe even leave a comment!
- Climbed the volcano on Lombok and lost four toenails in the process
- Drank far too much Arak/Sopi/Palm Wine…
- Almost froze to death in Canberra
- Took 4 different Pelni boats and was the only foreigner on any of them
- Survived the Outback
- 37 people have subscribed to my english feeds and 4 to my german feed
- Dived Alor and snorkelled Banda, two places I had been wanting to visit for years
- Visited 4 countries (Oz, England, Indonesia, East Timor) and 3 continents
- Spent 8000 EUR on God knows what…
- Saw the Komodo Dragons and did not get bitten, yeah!!
- Sailed the Whitsundays. Loved that and just remembered I didn’t even put a post about that online. Well, it was only a day trip, but to make up for it, have a look at the picture on top…
- Saw my first two Wombats and then accidentally killed them both with the car. I added some seriously bad karma on to my shoulders that night!
- I received 4 donations totalling around 90 EUR and my Google ads cam to about 15 USD, so that’s almost my hosting fees for another 3 years, which doesn’t mean I’d reject more donations or would frown at people clicking on me ads…
- Visited gorgeous Kelimutu again
- Managed to brush up on my Bahasa Indonesia
- Worked a lot on my tan
- Read like 30 books
- Wrote 29 posts (actually 30 including this one), which could have been more, but I was probably too busy sunbathing…or reading…
- Took about 8 GB worth of pictures, of which maybe 2GB were worth taking. Have a look at the photos I put online!
- Managed to free dive down to 25m with a dive time of 1 minute 37 seconds on Banda
- Was involved in a motorbike accident in Indo
- Was kind of involved in a car accident in Indo, which provided a fascinating few hours for the locals that happened to be there
- The average life expectancy of my sun glasses dropped down to roughly a day
- Met some great people and a few weirdos…
- Managed to teach an American how to open a beer bottle with a lighter, which was hard work!
- My Google Page Rank went on a rollercoaster; from 2 to 3 down to 1 up to 2 down to 0 ; I must be doing something wrong, but honestly, I couldn’t give a monkey’s bum…
- Visited the youngest nation on earth!
If you want to know more about what I’ve been up to these last six months have a look at my archives or click on some of the links above. Enjoy!!
Tags: 6, Backpack, Month, Travel
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Dave - 14 November 2007 @ 3:43 AM
Congrats on accomplishing so much!
Don’t move - I’ll be to that part of the world in 17 days (Tahiti - stop #1). New Zealand Dec 6 through New Year’s, and the east coast of Australia in January ‘08, followed by Bali and mainland Asia.
If we manage a meet-up, I’ll buy you a beer for keeping me inspired and entertained while I awaited my own trip.
traveljunkie - 14 November 2007 @ 4:20 AM
Coolio, mate! I’m flying to Kiwi country in 2 weeks and will be there for a year. Since New Zealand isn’t that big we shouldn’t have a problem to meet up for that beer :)
Keep counting down those days and have fun in Tahiti…that name sounds like paradise…
Mike - 14 November 2007 @ 7:02 PM
Good god! That’s a truly incredible list of experiences. Seeing it all listed out like that *really* makes me wish I didn’t have so long until my own RTW trip.
traveljunkie - 15 November 2007 @ 12:39 PM
Mike, in the end the wait is well worth it…
Sam - 15 November 2007 @ 4:25 PM
Managed to teach an American how to open a beer bottle with a lighter, which was hard work!
Unfortunately I haven’t practiced or used this skill outside of Abel Beding’s porch, especially now that I’m in twist-off Australia.
And you were telling me about that turtle butcherin’ - did you get any pics of that?
traveljunkie - 19 November 2007 @ 5:25 AM
Nah, no pics from that poor turtle, mate. I found that harder than the whales. It kind of seemed the turtle was still alive, although it couldn”t have been. The head and the jaw were moving all the time, really freaky…