Backpacking Travel Adventures – Around the World, since 1988
[ If you´re curious ... I have traveled across 100+ countries & territories - excluding revisits. And I have been taking my time, otherwise I could have rushed around in 5 years and visited all major cities and said: "I have been everywhere, I have seen the world". But in fact, I go right off the track in my journeys and so it will take a long-lifetime to truly see the world ... What follows is a timeline, not an account of what happened where, but simply which countries I was in at a given year. For greater details check - Travel Maps ]
2012
Living in Hangzhou – China, and visiting Shanghai; Hanging-out in Sihanoukville & Phnom Penh, Cambodia & Bangkok, Thailand; traveling in Georgia & Armenia.
2011
Traveling Central Asia overland: Western China – Qinghai & Xinjiang provinces, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Armenia, Georgia; living in Taian, China; traveling around China: Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong provinces.
2010
Living in Taian, Shandong, China; traveling overland from Bangkok to Taian: Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Anhui provinces of China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand; visiting family in New Zealand; traveling Central America: Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Honduras.
2009
Traveling Central America: Honduras, Belize, Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala; artist lifestyle - chillin’ 2 months in San Pedro La Laguna at Lake Atitlan, Guatemala; traveling Guatemala & Mexico; visiting Tokyo, Japan; travels in South Korea, while working in Gwangyang.
2008
Traveling around South Korea; traveling the Philippines & Hong Kong; living in Gwangyang, South Korea; visiting Bangkok – Wellington, New Zealand – Bangkok; traveling Cambodia, Laos, Thailand; Ghana, Togo, Benin, Togo, Ghana.
2007
Travels in West Africa: Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco; working in Seoul and traveling in South Korea; holiday in New Zealand & Bangkok, Thailand.
2006
Working in Seoul, and traveling around South Korea; solo art exhibition in Wellington, NZ; chillin’ while making art in Phnom Penh for 5 months, Cambodia; visiting Bangkok, Thailand.
2005
Chillin’, living, making art & traveling in Cambodia; travels across Yemen, Oman, UAE; the Trans-Siberian route – overland from Beijing to London by train, stopping and traveling in China, Mongolia, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, and England.
2004
Artist lifestyle for 6 months on the coast of Cambodia in Sihanoukville; also making art whist living in a 400-year-old Portuguese church for 6 months with local family on the Arabian Sea island of Diu, India; chillin’ some weeks on Koh Chang island, Thailand.
2003
Xmas in NZ; travels in South America: Argentina,Peru, Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay.
2002
Antarctica; traveling around South America: Argentina, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Chile; Easter Island, Tahiti; New Zealand; East Timor.
2001
Working for the United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces in East Timor, travelling & living in different districts every 6 weeks for 2 years; trips to Australia, Singapore, visiting Bangkok – Thailand (x6); travels in Burma; Laos; Sri Lanka.
2000
Working in East Timor for UN; trips to Australia & NZ & Philippines; across Indonesia to East Timor by ship to Darwin.
1999
Drifting around outer Indonesia – Papua, Flores, Alor, West Timor, living / working in Bali & Jakarta; visit to Singapore; travelling from Penang – Malaysia and across Sumatra and Java, Indonesia.
1998
Working & living in Bahrain (6 months) & southern England (Bournemouth & Folkestone); travels in Wales, Turkey, Greece.
1997
Down and out in Nelson, NZ; hitch-hiking trips around Southern New Zealand.
1996 -95
Reclused; still traveling in my head – writing my 2nd travel MS/book in Wellington, NZ, while on the dole.
1995 – 94
NZ; Thailand; Cambodia; Vietnam; China – Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, Tibet provinces; Nepal & India; Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Egypt, Israel; NZ.
1993 – 92
Writing my 1st travel MS/book while on the dole and/or working in Wellington, NZ.
1991 – 1989
Working & enjoying London in summer – to travel the other months: 1991: Hitching the Sahara – overland from London to Lagos: travellng Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Algeria, Morocco, Spain, France. 1991 – 90: Hitching London to India, via Iran, also traveling in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia (Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro), Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium. 1990 – 89: Traveling overland around Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Israel & Palestine.
1989
Working in London; visiting France, Belgium, Holland.
1988
Working in Edinburgh; traveling in Scotland & visiting Amsterdam; arriving in London, England -UK, from New Zealand, at age 21.
