The Man and the Plan
My name’s Llew (short for Llewellyn) Bardecki, and I’m eagerly anticipating my departure on an upcoming year-long Round The World trip. To this point I’ve spent most of my life (24 of 28 years) living in Toronto, Canada with the remainder spent 600km away in Montreal studying civil engineering.
I’ve already travelled quite a bit, having been to every continent except Asia and Antarctica, but a lot of that was with my family when I was young, so my “independent” type travel experience is pretty limited (this will, of course, soon be rectified in a big way.)
Currently the plan is to stay in hostels, trekking huts and other inexpensive accommodations interspersed with visits to friends. Planning to this point has been pretty limited, save for working out some destinations and a rough schedule. My idea is to spend my time doing whatever strikes my fancy at a given moment, or is recommended by the heaps of fellow travelers and natives I hope to meet 🙂
At the start of the trip my itinerary looks like this:
28 Jul to 3 Aug: Atlanta, USA
3 Aug to 9 Aug: Baltimore, USA
9 Aug to 15 Aug: Vancouver, Canada
16 Aug to 27 Aug: Cook Islands
29 Aug to 3 Sep: Fiji
3 Sep to 14 Oct: New Zealand
14 Oct to 5 Dec: Australia (overland from Sydney to Perth, with lots of time in Tasmania and WA since I haven’t been there before.)
5 Dec to 8 Dec: Singapore
8 Dec to 22 Feb: Travelling around Southeast Asia (Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, perhaps Malaysia or Vietnam) by land
22 Feb to 20 Mar: Nepal
20 Mar to 30 Mar: India
(Dates get a little fuzzy from here on in)
30 Mar to 30 April: Middle East, hopefully Iran provided it’s not in the middle of major turmoil at that point.
30 April to 25 July: Europe, mostly the east, but with a good chunk of time in the Netherlands and Wales to visit friends.
Whew. It looks awfully long and involved written down like that, but I’m sure the year will fly right by. The only way to find out for sure is to hit the road…
With a Round The World plane ticket in hand, a leave of absence from work, the addresses of a few friends scattered around the planet, a 15kg or so backpack and little else I’m ready to go! 🙂
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Llew
July 15th, 2004 at 12:19 am
Llew… Blog looks great.. I’m sending you the email address of a G/F who just left India after 5 or 6 months of travelling. She did a short part of Everest in Nepal and then did a whole lot of India. Hopefully Barb can help you out if you need it.
barb_engeland@hotmail.com
Enjoy yourself and I’ll see ya when you get back!
Conroy
July 15th, 2004 at 12:35 pm
I’m Barb – the girl mentioned by David. Just got back 2 weeks ago from Nepal, India and a little of Thailand. Let me know if you need an insiders advise on India or Nepal. I’m jealous. Have a great time!