On 17 Sep 2004 21:24:38 -0700, jacobs@ifi.uio.no (Jacob Stepaschko)
wrote:
>>
>> Frankly, unless you know a little about where to find things of interest to
>> you - you'll waste most of your time in Australia. The country is about the
>> same size as the continental USA, with about the same level of diversity!!
>
>Of course. I am stupid, but not _that_ stupid :)
>
>The country is just too big to do in one time, so for now I'll go to
>Sydney or Melbourne and do the East Coast. Perth would be cheaper, but
>it's so far away from everything else, even if many regard thw west
>coast to be better...
>Still don't know for how loing I will stay, probably 4-6 months. As
>some people say, you can stay _years_ and it's still not enough. So
>just have to make the best of it...
Hi Jacob
There is never enough time.
I went 'round the world last year. 19 weeks, over twenty countries (not
counting the Monacos and Luxembourgs etc) 21 flights, 4 rail trips, 57
hotels, countless zimmer frei and b&bs, five apartments etc etc. LA, SF,
Las Vegas, St Louis, New Orleans, the deep south by car, DC, NYC, Virgin
Islands - and that was before we hit Europe and drove around the EU and
Britsh Isles.
They told us it would be one of those "it's Tuesday - this must be
Belgium" type trips.
It wasn't. I planned it for a year, knowing my own interests and
limitations. We treated it as possibly our only chance to ever do it, so
see as much as we could, but also as a chance to see where we'd like to
return to if the chance came again.
So do it that way. Decide what it is you want to see, plan the time,
book what you must, and act accordingly. I used 'nodes"; specific points
that I booked in advance - SF, New Orleans, DC, NYC, USVI, Madrid,
Granada, Riviera, Paris, London, Singapore. But I left gaps of sometimes
weeks between them so that if we liked a spot we could stay longer, and
if we were bored we moved on.
Do it your way; you'll have a wonderful time. And if you get up near the
Tweed Coast email me and we'll have a beer.
Cheers, Alan
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