021: The Roughest of Rough Plans
A major part of the reason I started this new blog was to have a better, more professional alternative to my old livejournal which was further burdened by having three-year-old entries from when I was even more of an insufferable bastard than I am now. The main reason, however, was to have something to use for a travelogue.
As some of you might know, next year – about a month from now – I’m leaving to travel the western world for a year. The plan is – after brief stopovers in Turkey and Switzerland – to live and work in England for three months, spend four months over summer traveling around Europe, and then over to Canada for a month and the US for about three, coming home a bit under a year after I left. Over the next month, I’ll talk about my plans – such as they are, I’m deliberately keeping most of this wide open, and so far (it will change once festival tickets are released) there’s no schedule or dates whatsoever between January 29 when I fly into London and September 20 when I fly out of Zurich (to Montreal – most of my flights have been booked as a package deal through Swiss). And being me of course, this travelogue won’t just be the usual “here was a pretty castle i visited also wooooo i got wasted with other backpackers here are dumb drunk photos” (though I can’t promise there won’t be any of that) – instead, each place I visit will see articles here about the culture, the history, the political issues and climate and the musical scene. Which will provide no end of interesting, thought provoking ideas, and fun times.
Well if you’re not going to be a drunk Australian arsehole why the fuck would I read? Don’t let your country down – we have a reputation to uphold here. NEVER FORGET YOUR PATRIOTIC DUTY.
Srsly though nice one I’ll check it out occasionally
Oh I never said I wouldn’t be one – I’ll be as much of one as my wallet allows. Which when I get to America where 700ml of Jack Daniels costs about :tenbux: will be more than enough. I just don’t see the point of telling internet every time it happens, partly because everyone does that and partly because I can do that just as well at home.