:: Approximately four degrees of longitude per day
I'll be leaving Christmas day for a three-month vacation. I'll probably get into the whys and wherefores later - after all I'll have plenty of time for explanations - but suffice it to say I had the free time and the southern hemisphere is warm right now. I know a real round-the-world trip deserves far more time than I've giving this one, but not knowing when I'll have 18 months to do it properly I'll take what I can get.
I drew a rough map of the trip to kick it off. You may be wondering, "why is the starfish not happy?" The truth is that the starfish is the happiest of all the ocean critters depicted here, but cannot show it as starfish are notoriously uncomfortable expressing emotion.
If you have advice and tips for the locations where I'll be (excluding those in the US), please let me know. Destinations include, but are not limited to:
Ho Chi Minh City
Mui Ne
Can Tho
Chiang Mai
Pun Pun
Hong Kong
Sydney
Darwin / Kakadu National Park
Brisbane
Vanuatu (various)
New Zealand (various)
Los Angeles
Crooked River State Park, Georgia
New York City
Washington, DC
I'm also going to try and squeeze in another SE Asian trip, so any suggestions within a reasonably short flight of Hong Kong are welcome. I also know a couple of you have done this in a much more hardcore fashion so general RTW backpacking tips are appreciated.
