ON FRIDAY I fly out to Perth.
This is, of course, quite the step up from the first time I travelled there. Back in 1998 Virgin Blue was an innocent smurf, and with Qantas and Ansett having the country pretty much to themselves, they reckoned it was cheaper to go around the world than it was to go return to Perth. As such, I spent around $700 to spend 54 hours on a Greyhound bus in a trip that took me through every Australian capital other than Hobart and Darwin.
Naturally, the day I left I found a flight special for exactly the same price.
This trip though marks the start of what could well be my last season touring, before the inevitable need to settle down before the dreaded 30 hits at the end of next year.
The route so far sees me head from Brisbane to Perth, then over to South Africa for a couple of weeks bumming around there. After that it's off to London for a very fleeting visit, training for Eastern Europe and the Croatia Islands, off around northern Europe for a week or so before headig to Greece for a tour down there.
Throughout the year I'll try and update this daily, although lack of internet, time and my own sheer laziness this could well bum off like just about every other thing I do.
Needless to say, I'll try make this as entertaining as possible.
Could be interesting...
