Mr G&H's Farewell Tour - The Road Trip Video

So here is another video of our trip up north to Auckland with Mr G&H. The video starts just out Wellington and finishes in Auckland. The track in the background is called 'Aotearoa' by Minuit a New Zealand band.

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Budgets ... Yuck

Budgets Budgets and more Budgets how I hate them. So the next great adventure I'm trying to plan that is mend to blow my mind away is turning out to be a nightmare, thanks to that thing called money.

So far Egypt had to taken of the list thanks to this little thing going on in the Middle East called the 'Arab Spring'.

Now another remove on the list had to be done due to budgets constraints, my beloved Petra had to be cut. I have wanted to go there since, well since I found out it existed but alas it will have to wait for another day. Stooopid Monies.

But I'm getting close to confirming my Itinerary as the 5th November is approaching fast (the new departure date) and I'm starting to stress out.

Facebookness

Thought I would do some shameless promotion and announce to the world, in other words the 3 people that read my blog that I now have a Facebook Page. Oh yes Roetastic.com has its very own Facebook Page flash aye.

Also, Ello to my stalker from Charlotte, North Carolina (yay Google Analytics) glad to see your ok. The news told me there was floods around your area and didn't know if you where ok or how to really get hold of you. Thinking about it I could have asked Tanya hmmmm.

Anyways till later ...

Mr G&H's Farewell Tour - Interislander Video

Ok so I did promise that I will start editing the clips that I filmed on my trip up north. So here is the second installment our journey on the Interislander. Nothing much happened and for some reason I kept filming the cows. Oh and I stole the song of the Interislander ad, yay me .....

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Stoopid Egypt

So my trip is still waiting to be confirmed and I'm fearing that I might have to push everything back a week which I'm not happy about. Another thing that I'm not happy about either is Egypt and the protest there. Ok yes violence is never a good thing but my unhappiness is rather selfish here.

You see I was meant to go to Egypt on my Next Adventure. I was going to sail down the Nile for 4 days visiting crumbled old buildings and also go and visit those pointy triangle things everyone goes on about. But nooooooooooo Egypt had to go and protest again and now the New Zealand Travel advisory says the following.

"There is high risk to your security in Egypt, including in the Sinai (except in the Red Sea resort area, Luxor and Aswan), due to the unpredictable security situation and threat from terrorism and we advise against all tourist and other non-essential travel"

"There is some risk to your security in the Red Sea resort area, Luxor and Aswan due to the threat from terrorism and we advise caution."

I'll give you a high risk of my foot up your ass Egypt. However even if I do still go my expensive travel insurance will not cover me. Also my travel agent said she doesn't want my mum in her shop asking why she send me to Egypt. My mother can be scary when she wants to be so I dont blame Chloe. So yes there goes one leg of my adventure but there is still other exiting places left.

Anyways hope to have a update very soon with confirmed dates.

The Assumption Song

I know this isn't travel related but I love this song ...

The End is Nigh

This is totally me right now, a tat over excited and youthful. Ok maybe not so youthful anymore but definitely very excited about my next adventure.

So last Friday I headed into Flight Centre Rangiora to go visit my new best friend Chloe with the 'Adventure Bible' in hand. Once she stopped laughing at me and my 'little black book' we got to the serious business of making me poor. After about 2 hours of rearranging this and that and getting excited about selected sections of my next Adventure we penciled in a departure date.

So once Chloe can confirm all the dates and I part with my savings. I should be departing New Zealand on the 30th October and be returning around the 3rd July 2012.

Where am I going?

Well some people already know and most at least know it will end in Canada. However the in between bit  is more of a secret and will be kept that way until closer to the time.

So stay posted and you might get a sneak peek of the adventure years in the planning ...