The 1000 Day Holiday

730 Days down, 270 to go…

01/01/08 Recovering!
02/01/08To Cardiff
03/01/08 Cardiff
04/01/08 back to london, Dinner w Rebecca & Alesha
05/01/08 Edinburgh
06/01/08 Edinburgh
07/01/08 Edinburgh
08/01/08 Edinburgh
09/01/08 York then onto Leeds
10/01/08 Leeds
11/01/08 Bourne/Peterborough w Rachel & Duncs
12/01/08 Free hugs couchsurfing in trafalger sq!
13/01/08 London
14/01/08 London: british museum,
15/01/08 Windsor Castle, Stonehenge and then Overnight ferry to France with the world by road boys
16/01/08 To Paris
17/01/08 Exploring Paris
18/01/08 Exploring Paris
19/01/08 Lourve, Paris
20/01/08 Photo shoot TWBR, head for Zurich
21/01/08 Arrive Zurich, Head to Munich. Hanging out w Regina
22/01/08 Munich, recovering my Ipod
23/01/08 2hr train to Fussen to see the Disney Castle, our guide talked like a robot.
24/01/08 Hilpolstein
25/01/08 Hilpolstein newspaper interview then Nuremburg
26/01/08 Hilpolstein, playing with the fire trucks, clubbing at A1 in
27/01/08 Trying to find a route to Switzerland… Prato Allo Stelvio closed for winter..
28/01/08 Grindelwald, Switzerland. Snowboarding
29/01/08 Grindelwald, Switzerland. Iceclimbing
30/01/08 Engelberg, Switzerland. Snowboarding
31/01/08 Engelberg, Switzerland. Snowboarding

761 Days down, 239 to go…
01/02/08 Luzerne
02/02/08 Luzerne
03/02/08 Enroute from France to Barcelona, shopping in Andorra
04/02/08 Trying to fix the truck in Barcelona
05/02/08 Barcelona
06/02/08 Barcelona. Tapas till we drop
07/02/08 Barcelona
08/02/08 Hanging w Sjan
09/02/08 Towards Portugal, sleeping in the car Salamanca
10/02/08 Into Portugal
11/02/08 Lisbon
12/02/08 Lagos
13/02/08 Ferry from Algeciras to Ceuta.
14/02/08 Casablanca
15/02/08 Casablanca
16/02/08 Fez Morocco
17/02/08 Fez Morocco.
18/02/08 Fez Morocco.
19/02/08 Fez Morocco. Production Assistant for “A Day in Africa”
20/02/08 2.5 hours looking for Casablancas airport.. DOH! new ticket 90Euro
21/02/08 Arrive Madrid
22/02/08 Madrid, Retiro Park
23/02/08 Madrid
24/02/08 Madrid
25/02/08 Madrid
26/02/08 Fly to Miami
27/02/08 Miami
28/02/08 Dream Nightclub, Miami
29/02/08 29cent hamburgers at mcdonalds!

789 Days down, 211 to go…
01/03/08 Miami, Space Nightclub

02/03/08 Miami, irish bars
03/03/08 Fly to Bogota, 10 pin bowling

04/03/08 Wheelchair Rugby w Archangeles
05/03/08 Colombia Police Museum
06/03/08 bogota
07/03/08 The Colombian Dentist Experience, Wheelchair rugby, CS Bogota party

08/03/08 Fiesta de teatro concert

09/03/08 Fiesta de teatro street parade, up and around Monserrate

10/03/08 exploring Barichara
11/03/08 San Gil, Rafting

12/03/08 To Medellin
13/03/08 Medellin
14/03/08 Medellin
15/03/08 St Paddys day Pit stop hostel, Medellin, Colombia

16/03/08 Medellin
17/03/08 Medellin
18/03/08 To San Antero for the Donkey Festival
19/03/08 San Antero
20/03/08 Visit Tolu beach

21/03/08 Electronica Festival, punta de piendra
22/03/08 Donkey Festival. Parade. San Antero, Colombia

23/03/08 Donkey Festival, show grounds party.
24/03/08 Santa Marta
25/03/08 Santa Marta
26/03/08 Taganga
27/03/08 Taganga
28/03/08 Taganga
29/03/08 Taganga
30/03/08 Taganga
31/03/08 Taganga

820 Days down, 180 to go…
01/04/08 Day 1 Lost City trek. From Taganga into the park…
02/04/08 Day 2 Lost City trek. Camp 1 to Camp 2
03/04/08 Day 3 Lost City trek. Camp 2 to Lost City
04/04/08 Day 4 Lost City trek. A day at the lost city
05/04/08 Day 5 Lost City trek. Long hike to camp 1
06/04/08 Day 6 Lost City trek. back to Taganga
07/04/08 To Tyrona, National Park for my Birthday!
08/04/08 Birthday at Tayrona
09/04/08 Tayrona
10/04/08 Back to Taganga
11/04/08 To Cartagena
12/04/08 Cartagena, Beach Volleyball, crabs n oysters. The horse in the nightclub!
13/04/08 Cartagena, beach volleyball
14/04/08 Playa Blanca, Hugos place
15/04/08 Playa Blanca, Hugos Place. learnt to stick a nail up my nose.
16/04/08 Volcan Totumo, swimming in the mud volcano
17/04/08 Cartagena
18/04/08 day 1 stahratte to cuba. everyones puking.
19/04/08 ripped 4 sails in the nite during a large storm. lying in bed starfish position and holding on1
20/04/08 everyones puking, not much happening
21/04/08 Sail fixing
22/04/08 Day in the kitchen. Pancakes, salad, roast
23/04/08 Popped my ear drum..baked awesome bananna bread.. we tacked (sort of). Saw a tanker on night watch..
24/04/08 we caught fish!
25/04/08 Arrived in Ceinfurgos, Cuba
26/04/08 Cienfuegos
27/04/08 To Habana. Flamenco Show at the National Theatre, Habana
28/04/08 Off to the doctor for some antibiotics…
29/04/08 Wander habana, down the waterfront, and Plaza de la Revolucion
30/04/08 Hanging around Habana

850 Days down, 150 to go…
01/05/08 May day. Parade past Raul Castro. Bus to Vinales
02/05/08 Loop track around the karst mountains
03/05/08 Climbing the mogote w Helen and Ally
04/05/08 Bus to Habana, Overnight bus to Santiago de Cuba
05/05/08 exploring the worst sights of Santiago. Couldnt find the bullet holes at Parque abel santamaria
06/05/08 Morro de San Pedro Castillo
07/05/08 Bacardi Museo. Never get a cut throat shave by a woman!
08/05/08 Bus to Camaguey. Sleepwalking. My books are tied through the floor.
09/05/08 Camaguey, La rumba party and school volleyball champs.. Overnight taxi to Habana
10/05/08 Eating cuba, $1 street pizza, $15 Lobster dinner with piano man accompaniment.
11/05/08 Fly to Guatemala city. Plaza market
12/05/08 was going to change to antigua, left money/passport on my bed! luckily hospital was too busy for checkup on my ear so i came back.
13/05/08 To Antigua
14/05/08 Volcan Pacaya
15/05/08 Antigua
16/05/08 Bus to San Pedro on Lago Atitlan
17/05/08 San Pedro
18/05/08 Boat to San Marcos
19/05/08 Boat to Pana
20/05/08 Chicken bus to Guate, Bus to Coban, minivan to Lanquin. 12 hours of pleasure.
21/05/08 giant jenga and shenannagins at semuc shampey
22/05/08 semuc shampey tour, then kings, gravy train punishment all nite…
23/05/08 to flores… the joys of crazy mini buses
24/05/08 tikal sunrise tour. happy hour afternoon
25/05/08 Overnight bus from flores to Antigua
26/05/08 met up w Anne in antigua
27/05/08 from antigua to la libertad.. starting at 1pm.. chicken buses in elsalvador at night… no problem!
28/05/08 la libertad
29/05/08 changed to sunzal. much better spot.
30/05/08 sunzal
31/05/08 lobster dinner for the final nite at the beach

881 Days down, 119 to go…
01/06/08 suchitoto. walk to the not waterfall, bats in the room to catch the mosquitos…
02/06/08 to santa ana
03/06/08 trip out to Lago de Coatepeque. crater lake
04/06/08 santa ana
05/06/08 volcan izalco hike
06/06/08 to San Salavador
07/06/08 5am bus to managua, nicaragua
08/06/08 bus to grenada
09/06/08 buses and boat to isla de omatepe
10/06/08 santo domingo
11/06/08 morning beach run..  first of my trip! changed to finca magdelena
12/06/08 very sore! overnight boat to San Carlos
13/06/08 panga to el castillo.. giant river shrimps for breakfast and dinner!
14/06/08 16 Hours of travel. 5am boat, el castillo – san carlos. Wait 1hr for immigration and boat 2.5hr. 1.5hr Boat to Los Chilles (wildlife tour). Wait 1 hr for immigration. 1 hour sorting out travel. 5 hour bus.. ARGH!
15/06/08 San Jose, Costa Rica.
16/06/08 San Jose, Costa Rica.
17/06/08 San Jose, Costa Rica.
18/06/08 San Jose, Costa Rica.
19/06/08 Monteverde, Costa Rica
20/06/08 Zip Lining at Extremo
21/06/08 To Managua, watched sex and the city movie to waste time. 3 hours of pain
22/06/08 King Quality bus from Managua to Teguc, then onto Tela
23/06/08 Tela
24/06/08 To La Ceiba
25/06/08 To Utila, Stayed at Mangos.
26/06/08 moved to Altons dive shop… much better
27/06/08 Sailing on the harbour in a hobie cat
28/06/08 Altons Booze cruise and G´s Birthday
29/06/08 should drink more than 1 Gallon of water in 5 days. Whole day trying to rehydrate
30/06/08 Was going to dive..  naaah

911 Days down, 89 to go…
01/07/08 Kitesurfing w Lisa! first time in 15 months!
02/07/08 Diving w Altons. Haliburton wreck, and a 4 site drift dive off the lighthouse
03/07/08 Ferry is broken, stranded on Utila (met the mayor, drunken chats)
04/07/08 Grabbed a ride on altons boat to La ceiba, bus to copan ruins..
05/07/08 Copan Ruinas
06/07/08 Shuttle to Antigua
07/07/08 Bumming around in Antigua again
08/07/08 Pacaya volcano again. This time bacon, onion cheese burgers!
09/07/08 bus to Puerto Barrios
10/07/08 Ferry to Punta Gorda, bus to independence, water taxi to placencia. Karaoke argh
11/07/08 placencia, tipsy tuna
12/07/08 placencia, Driftwood dance party.. hahaha
13/07/08 placencia Horseshoe competition at Barefoot bar. pub crawl, chinese dinner w porn
14/07/08 water taxi, Bus, ferry to Caye Caulker (tinas guesthouse)
15/07/08 Caye Caulker
16/07/08 Caye Caulker
17/07/08 Raggamuffin snorkel tour.. got to swim w manatees!
18/07/08 Ferry, bus to Tulum, Mexico. Bus drove off with my pack…
19/07/08 Tulum Beach day
20/07/08 Beach day, No alcohol in town as Orange warning level due to tropical storm dolly
21/07/08 Tropical Storm dolly didnt hit us.. life goes on!
22/07/08 Tulum
23/07/08 Tulum
24/07/08 Playa Del Carmen. Ordered my reading glasses (oh the life planning)
25/07/08 To Isla Mujeres
26/07/08 Beaching it
27/07/08 Beaching it.
28/07/08 Sneaked resort time, Mujeres
29/07/08 To Playa Del Carmen
30/07/08 Dinner with Jasmina
31/07/08 Walked way up the coast, hung out w a kitesurfer in a resort bar.

942 Days down, 58 to go…
01/08/08 Back to Tulum
02/08/08 Discussing scarification, beach time, tulum
03/08/08 Cocktail party on the Beach

04/08/08 To Isla Mujeres

05/08/08 Apartment party, beach bar
06/08/08 Sunset beach
07/08/08 Cheeky local tried to pickpocket me at the Beach Bar
08/08/08 Mujeres
09/08/08 Mujeres
10/08/08 Mujeres
11/08/08 Mujeres
12/08/08 Back to Tulum
13/08/08 Day of hardcore tanning
14/08/08 More swimming pool action on the beach
15/08/08 Tulum
16/08/08 Beach time
17/08/08 To Playa del Carmen
18/08/08 To Cancun
19/08/08 Coco Bongos Nightclub
20/08/08 Fly Cancun, Mexico City, San Francisco
21/08/08 Burning Man Prep
22/08/08 BM Prep, Partying w Eric Stone
23/08/08 SF, Shopping prep for Burning Man. Tapas Dinner and Party. Saw girl hit by a car 2am..
24/08/08 Drive out to Burning Man, 2pm Depart, Arrive at the gates 10.30PM. At camp 3:30AM
25/08/08 BM 1: Dust storms make visibility around 20m. Great adventures exploring the playa
26/08/08 BM 2: Exploring with Visibility! Met up w Sam et al. Randomly spotted Rhoda
27/08/08 BM 3: Straya Party, Centre camp action
28/08/08 BM 4: Urine recycle camp, Deep end, Porn n Eggs camp w Alaskan Crab!
29/08/08 BM 5: Critical tits, Carl Cox @ Opulent Temple,
30/08/08 BM 6: The man burns,
31/08/08 BM 7: Temple burn, Break down Mclightenment & Hippocampus

973 Days down, 27 to go…
01/09/08 11 Hour drive back from Burning Man to San Francisco.
02/09/08 Decompression and washing from Burning Man!
03/09/08 SF
04/09/08 SF, Dinner at Mamacitas
05/09/08 Hitching to Ukiah, Ukiah Chilli Cook off contest, Drink the Coolade!
06/09/08 Roadtrip to Brookings, OR. After dropping by Jim Jones house & Paul Bunyon @ the mystery tree. Slept at the Brookings Mission!
07/09/08 Quadbiking on the Dunes, and free camping near Reedsport
08/09/08 To Eugene, Exploring the river parks & Uni by bike
09/09/08 Micro Brewery tours, Oakshire & Nikasi.
10/09/08 Hiked the Butte, Pre memorial, Nike History and then To Portland. Exploring some of the Beer
11/09/08 Exploring NE Portland. Burgerville and midnight doughnuts
12/09/08 CL to Seattle
13/09/08 Seattle w Jamie
14/09/08 Ferry to Orcas Island
15/09/08 Camping at Deception Point.
16/09/08 Driving to Olympia, hanging w Carlis cousin then onto Portland
17/09/08 Day trip to the waterfalls, 17 new beers tasted in 1 day!
18/09/08 Exploring Portland, Crowne Plaza for the night! ooh ahh.. Humboldt County premiere
19/09/08 Back to Seattle…
20/09/08 Fly Seattle to SF on Virgin America (NICE!)
21/09/08 Fly to Sydney via Auckland
22/09/08 Flying/crossing the Date line and loosing a day
23/09/08 Straight from the airport to helping move Mick into their new place.
24/09/08 Exploring Coogee w Brewski the puppy
25/09/08 Drinks at Cargo w Amy & Sarah (Japan). Blood tests…
26/09/08 Coffee (Claire), lunch (Jo), beers (RBA) & w Sydney crew (Comindibros..)
27/09/08 Drinks, and AFL at the Coogee Bay Hotel

GOD DAMN! 1000 down…what now?

1001: Walking into my parents shop and watching the confused looks… getting pinched a million times by mum to make sure Im real. Priceless!

To All those people that Ive met, hung out, partied & explored with. You are what makes a trip unbelievable.Thanks!