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for Asia and the USA, many of my travels |
What Trips have I done?
| Where | When | What |
Countries |
| Europe | April 1994 - September 1994 | The big OE (Overseas Experience). 18 countries covered on a motorcycle, staying in youth hostels, cheap hotels and camp sites. | Bali (on the way, not by bike), England, France, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium. |
| South East Asia | January 1997 - February 1997 | 6 week stop over journey on the way from NZ to the USA. Stayed in cheap hotels. | Singapore, Malaysia (including the Island of Borneo), Thailand |
| USA | Various | Still live here, still got lots to see and do. | (States), California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Indiana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Idaho, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, Maine, New Mexico, Washington DC |
| New Zealand | Lived there most of my life - traveled very often | Did several trips on motorcycles, in campervans, in a canoe - always with friends. | 95% of the country, some of it up to 5 times. |
| East Africa | November 2008 | 18 day safari/adventure/budget travel experience with my friend Brian | Kenya, Uganda, DRC (half day trip into Goma), Rwanda |
| Mexico | October 2007 | Honeymoon | PuertoVallarta - beach resort. |
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Diaries and Pictures
In both Europe and South East
Asia, I kept a day by day diary of my traveling experiences. I
also noted such things as driving habits of the locals, prices
for gas, accommodation and food, youth hostel information and a
listing of what rolls of film contained what.
The picture to the left is a page from the Europe trip.
For the Europe trip all I had was a 5-stage auto focus 35mm camera - that's what all the pictures on this site were taken with. Being very tight for room a full SLR could not be warranted.
In Asia, I had a Cannon EOS 500 with a 300mm zoom lens. This was somewhat larger and much more obvious in terms to a target for stealing, however, one of the main sight seeing targets was the Orangutans in Malaysia so I wanted a long zoom camera.
In East Africa, I took my Nikon D70 with a 70-200 f2.8 VR lens with a 1.6x - and a 18-200 3.5-6.5 OS Sigma lens - got fantastic pictures - over 1100 in fact.
Updated May 2009