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Where I’ve Traveled

My Travel Chronology

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Van life in China: staying opposite a sacred mountain in Yunnan on the road to Tibet in 2020.

About 90% of these countries were traveled overland as journeys across continents.


> Jump back to the beginning in 1988

2023

New Zealand – (1st pandemic-era family visit)

China – Jiaxing

Thailand

Indonesia (islands of Bali, Gili Meno, Flores, Komodo, West Timor, Sumba, Bali)

Thailand

2022

Thailand

China – Linyi + Tencheng

2021

China – Linyi; Promo trips to Moganshan; Litang and Tibetan Sichuan; Hainan Island; and continuing van life in the provinces of Yunnan & Sichuan

2020

China – van life in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai provinces + village house-sitting in Yunnan + van life of 7000 km across the provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou

2019

China – van life begins: 10,000 km in Hebei, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shandong provinces + Tianjin & Beijing visits + Shaxi village long-stay

2018

China – Henan, Liaoning, Hebei provinces + mountain-stay in Mengshan

New Zealand (family visit).

China – Weihai

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Pyongyang – North Korea, 2017.

2017

China – Beijing + provinces of Liaoning & Shandong

Europe trip: Ukraine, England, Georgia, Azerbaijan

China

North Korea

China – based in Shenyang

2016

China

New Zealand

Asia trip: Indonesia, India, Kuala Lumpur, Cambodia, Thailand

2015

China – based in Linyi

Eastern Europe trip: Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Republika Srpska, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Trans-Dniester Republic, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria

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Hiking the mountains of Albania (2015).

2014

China – Linyi + Shandong

New Zealand

Thailand, Cambodia, Thailand

2013-2014

Africa trip: South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somaliland, Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt

China – based in Hangzhou

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Meroe Pyramids – Sudan, 2013.

2012

China – Hangzhou Zhejiang province + Shanghai

Cambodia + Thailand

Armenia + Georgia

2011

Central Asia trip: China (Qinghai & Xinjiang provinces), Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Armenia, Georgia

China – Taian + Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong provinces

2010

China – based in Taian

South-East Asia trip: China (Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Anhui provinces), Vietnam, Laos, Thailand

New Zealand

Central America trip: Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Honduras

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Maya festival – Guatemala, 2009.

2009

Central America trip: Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala (+ long-stay at Lake Atitlan), Mexico

Japan (Tokyo)

South Korea – based in Gwangyang

2008

Philippines + Hong Kong

South Korea + Gwangyang

Thailand

New Zealand

Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand

Ghana, Togo, Benin, Togo

Painted houses of Ghana, 2007.

2007

West Africa trip: Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco

South Korea – based in Seoul

New Zealand + Thailand

2006

South Korea + Seoul

New Zealand

Cambodia – based in Phnom Penh (+ Bangkok)

2005

Cambodia – Phnom Penh

Middle East trip: UAE, Oman, Yemen

Eurasia trip: England, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark (+ Malmo, Sweden), Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Belarus, Russia, Mongolia, China

2004

Cambodia – living at Victory Beach, Sihanoukville

India – living on Diu Island

Thailand – Koh Chang Island

2003

New Zealand

South America trip: Peru, Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil (staying at Jeri), Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay

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Deception Island – live volcano – Antarctica, 2003.

2002

Antarctica & South America trip: Argentina, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia (stay in Sucre), Chile

Easter Island + Tahiti

New Zealand

East Timor

2001-2000

East Timor life + travels working for the United Nations in different districts every 6 weeks for 2 years + ‘holiday leave’ travels to:

Australia (Darwin x8), Singapore, Bangkok (x6), Myanmar, Laos, Sri Lanka, Australia (Sydney), New Zealand, Philippines

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Staying at Sarong Beach, Papua, Indonesia 1999.

1999

Indonesia – drifting the islands of Alor, Flores, Bali, Java, West Timor, Papua, Banda, Java. Based in Jakarta

Singapore

Malaysia – Penang, and across to Indonesia – Sumatra + Java islands

1998

Bahrain – work + study

England (Bournemouth, staying in Folkestone, London) + Wales

Turkey + Greece

1997

New Zealand – down and out in Nelson + hitching around the South Island

1996–1995

New Zealand – based in Wellington, writing my 2nd travel book

1994-95

Asia trip: Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China (Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, Tibet provinces), Nepal, India

East Africa trip: Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Egypt, Israel

1993–1992

New Zealand – based in Wellington, writing my 1st travel book

1991

Africa trip: Nigeria, Cameroon, Nigeria, Niger, Algeria – hitching the Sahara, Morocco, Spain, France

London

1991–1990

India trip: India, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia (North Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro), Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium

London

1990–1989

Middle East trip: Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Israel

London

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Michael Robert Powell – Nemrut Dagi, Turkey 1989

1989

London

France

London

Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam

1988

Edinburgh + Scotland

Amsterdam

Arrived in London from New Zealand, age 21

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