Uncle travelling Gjerulf

On request, here is a question and answer page. Thanks for the idea, Heather, your questions come first.

Q: What’s the plan for your travels?
A: I have no definite plans, but a vague outline includes Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.

Q: When are you going home?
A: I don’t know. I miss friends and family, but I’m having a ball, and I’m not ready to return yet. If I don’t get a job, I probably don’t have more than a couple of months yet, but if I do get a job that can support my student loan, the next thing I have to think about is my passport, which expires in September next year.

Q: What are your most important advices to those who may be thinking about doing the same kind of travels?

A: Save up some cash and just DO IT.
Start out with finding out what countries you want to go to, and figure out if you need to apply for visas in advance. Chances are Russia  and China will be easiest to apply for visa from your home country.
DONT buy malaria pills in a western country, buy them where you’re going, it will save you loads of money.
Try couchsurfing, it will get you closer to the local way of life.
Work and travel, working along the way could keep you travelling indefinitely.
Talk to other travellers along the way, and be flexible in where you are going, it will let you go to awesome places your guidebook doesn’t mention.

Q: What do you feel you’re learning and get from your travels?
A: Patience, tolerance, history, geography, cultures, languages, traditions, and quite importantly more about who I am and how I react in new and different situations.