My first blog entry!!

Well welcome to my travel blog, the place where I will keep keeping everyone up to date as well as documenting my journey from Aberdeen to Sydney (via a couple of other places!)

I have not actually left Aberdeen yet nor will I for another 3 months (84 days to be exact!) however I wanted to put a little in about the plotting and planning I have been doing recently, well since the conception of this trip.

It all began when I finished uni last summer and was trying to think of what to do next....yeah a bit of a brain puzzler that one! Since my mini-adventure to Central America last February, I felt like I needed a longer traveling experience and that month away was far too short, basically I caught what they call 'the travel bug'! So since I was longing for more adventure, have no idea what to do with my life and I am generally not ecstatic about the thought of staying in Aberdeen I though "why don't I go do the work and live in OZ thing" (I had previously thought that was far too cliche and have never really wanted to visit OZ) options weren't plentiful and the world is my oyster..apparently.
Anyway so inspired by my sister Miriam, who left for OZ with a working holiday visa in September is now living in an apartment in Bondi and spending her evenings working in a bar and her afternoons and day offs sunbathing on Bondi beach (b****!), I decided to make my way there, however I thought if I'm going all that way round the world and my plane has to stop off at some exotic country, I might as well stop off for a few days...or more!

So..I began to look at my options for stop-overs on the way to Australia and round the world tickets. Since I had seen a little of Latin America and Africa is somewhere I would like to concentrate on another time, I thought I should see Asia. Because I am a big film fan, a lot of my interest in visiting places stem from seeing them in films and I have always been fascinated by the music and colour of the India depicted in Bollywood cinema and I am also interested in the religion, love the food and think that the country has such a rich culture. I decided at that point then also to just buy plane tickets from destination to destination as I had not yet really decided where I wanted to go and also as my finances would not allow for me to pay for the whole trip in one go. So I bought a one-way ticket to India and put a deposit on a 15 day tour called the 'Rajahstan Adventure' with STA Travel in September! A little irrational some may think but I had to give myself that motivation to do my trip!

Over the next few months my trip and ideas for it drifted back and forth in my head and then I moved back home in the middle of January so I could save money for my trip and concentrate on planning. My travel plans suddenly came to the front of my mind and became very much my priority. I invested in a few lonely planet and rough guide books (I'm not biased), googled the hell out of Asia and upon recommendations and again films decided that after India I would pop past Thailand and Cambodia on the way to Australia. It was not until I was looking at flights from Thailand to OZ, I found out it would be a hell of a lot cheaper to fly from Vietnam so a trip to "Nam" was suddenly included in my itinerary!

As it stands at the moment I am pretty much all set! Got my flight from Aberdeen to Delhi on 29th April (the week after my 23rd Birthday!) and this week I have bought my flight from Delhi to Bangkok and a flight from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to Sydney! I have also applied for my Indian visa, I have filled out the form for my Australian working holiday visa and booked a few nights accommodation in a guest house in Bangkok for when I arrive.

I have made a detailed itinerary and planner using tripit (because I'm so organised like that!) where all the details can be seen :-)
Follow link: http://www.tripit.com/trip/public/id/B712D9E910F8

Basically now I am literally sooo incredibly excited to go and explore the world, to see Miriam in Sydney and to hopefully 'find myself'!

Let 'Sean's Adventures' begin!!!