The Wrong Way home
3 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Friday, December 24 at Friday, December 24, 2004.
Since reading "The Wrong Way Home" by the Australian author Peter Moore, I've really set as a mid-term goal in my life to go back to Australia that way. In The Wrong Way Home, Moore travels home from London to Australia, over land, no flights allowed. Its a great book, detailing his journey throuh Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
So its been this thing in my life that at some point I will make this journey. My Hungarian homeboy Peter is down for this, and I'm sure there is a couple of others who would want to do it as well.
Why am I posting about this now? Look at my little GeoLoc widget on the right hand side. Look at the red dots showing where I have had visitors from. It beats an almost frighteningly perfect path from Europe, home to Australia. Now the people who read this blog are either people I have met around the world because of AIESEC, or people who I am connected with through the nomadlife blogosphere, who are all ex-AIESEC people, all cool, and all sympathetic to the life of the travelling nomad.
So my question is - if you are one of my readers based somewhere on the overland trail from Europe to South East Asia - do you mind if I crash at your house sometime next year?
So its been this thing in my life that at some point I will make this journey. My Hungarian homeboy Peter is down for this, and I'm sure there is a couple of others who would want to do it as well.
Why am I posting about this now? Look at my little GeoLoc widget on the right hand side. Look at the red dots showing where I have had visitors from. It beats an almost frighteningly perfect path from Europe, home to Australia. Now the people who read this blog are either people I have met around the world because of AIESEC, or people who I am connected with through the nomadlife blogosphere, who are all ex-AIESEC people, all cool, and all sympathetic to the life of the travelling nomad.
So my question is - if you are one of my readers based somewhere on the overland trail from Europe to South East Asia - do you mind if I crash at your house sometime next year?
Merry Christmas Tom.
Tom, there's a spare space in Hamidye Mahellesi, Camlibel, Mersin, Turkey for you and any other homeboys and homegirls you manage to drag along. In fact, I'm due for a trip back to Oz in 2005...this sounds a great way to go...
hey tom...i'm not sure when you are planning on embarking on this epic adventure, but i'm definitely interested...especially since i bought a one way ticket to Europe!
i read another book with a similar kind of theme, called "A Fortune Teller Told Me", about an Asian correspondent for a German magazine who was told by a fortune teller (in 1976) that he would die if he flew in 1997. So he decided to continue his job as regional correspondent, but only over land and sea...quite a tale of adventures and insights in Asia also...