About Us
Each year we spend about three months travelling taking advantage of the long summer university break. This blog is a journal of the places we went, the things we saw and some photos; hopefully inspiration for everyone to find a similar balance of work and play in their lives.
Thorung La (5416m), Nepal. December 2008
2010
2010 is shaping up nicely, although Tracy will be in the process of completing her Masters project (in carbon emissions trading yawn), she has extremely itchy feet and with the added incentive of passing Nitrox and Wreck Diving specialities for us both, we are keen to start scuba diving around the world:-
- May/June 2010: Borneo - diving in Sipadan and seeing some of Indonesia and Malaysia Borneo
- July 2010: Philippines - diving at Coron (World War II wrecks)
- November 2010: Back to our traditional holiday with a plan to trek from North to South Vietnam, lets hope three months is long enough and we can put in a quick side visit to Laos and Cambodia.
Scott is also in the process of becoming a Scuba Diving Instructor, so hopefully this may result in being able to pick up work to help finance some of the trips - who said golf was expensive!
The desire to return to India is strong and we still want to visit the East coast and Sri Lanka and maybe another trip to Dharamsala, one of our favourite places in the world.
We will attempt to update the Blog when we can, and after not filling in the SmartTraveller registration for Jakarta, will do it from now on.
2009
Well 2009 is over and an unusual year with limited travel (Jakarta and Singapore) but a very busy year with work and university. There is no long trip over the University end of year break due to Scott’s desire to spend a summer in Perth and finish off his home aquaponics set-up.
We have been busy and have both finished our Advanced Open Water Diving qualifications which has opened up a whole new world of holiday possibilities and unfortunately the need to work to finance them all.
2008/2009
This holiday stemmed from giving Scott a list of treks in Nepal - we both settled on the Annapurna Circuit (approximately 22 days) to take us into some remoter parts of Nepal. I found this trek to be extremely challenging, obviously the 3 weeks of training in the gym before heading off was not enough, but I made it to the top of Thorung La, luckily Scott had made up his mind I was going to make it, even if he had to drag me up there. We then ventured into Tibet to fulfil a lifelong dream of visiting Lhasa and seeing the Potala Palace before heading back into Nepal to make our way through to the Darjeeling district of India and then down to Kolkata to spend some time (Scott wanted to visit the Black Hole). Finally heading back to Delhi, where I would meet a friend for a trip back through Rajasthan and Scott would head back to Perth.
Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet - January 2009
2007/2008
Scott wanted to go sailing and I wanted to see South America, so we combined the two. We sailed down through the Beagle Channel (glacier alley), before heading up to Peru and working our way through South America, finally renting an apartment in Buenos Aires. Great trip, but very tiring as we could only communicate in Spanish and that certainly wasn’t our strong point. Another lifelong dream was to visit Macchu Picchu and there we were on Christmas Day, can’t get much better than this.
2006/2007
The first trip to India. How can we explain it, it was just totally awesome and we know we will return. The sites, sounds, colours and most importantly the food - fantastic. It was a hard trip with all the travelling but we certainly got off the tourist path and met some really interesting people. I had a lifelong dream to visit Dharamsala (the home of the Dalai Lama), so we spent a wonderful week, the feeling and people were just extraordinary.
