Time for a summer " Down Under "

Now all i have to do is wait for the next 8months to pass away as soon as possible for i have finally booked my next travel expo. And this time will be going for an aussie summer, experiencing christmas & new year, all on my own & far away from home, family & friends !
Leaving england on 16th November for Melbourne, spending time in australia visiting family & friends before going off to New Zealand in search of work to fund further travel & to experience the quality of work out there.
For the search of a new beginnning, a new career, experience the lifestyles of a better place, to do some good in a more rewarding & in a location where i would prefer to be !!!

Race For Life 2008

Another Year Gone !

Another Year Gone for me, having turned 29 only 2weeks ago and feeling no different. I ponder many thoughts including what job/career do i want.............?
Wishing that once again i could travel, right now, far away from this little country we all know & love ! Needing to get away, clear my thoughts and relax under summer sun all year round.

Dominiks' African photos

http://as.photoprintit.de/web/39725842/ssa.do?ak=b9hWMlWl7u
http://as.photoprintit.de/web/39725842/ssa.do?ak=v6zxN0Erd2
http://as.photoprintit.de/web/39725842/ssa.do?ak=PkXnMnqulO

these links are from a fellow traveller i met while on safari tour in Africa.
Stunning close ups, amazing scenery & Cute pics

What Next for Woody ?

After having been back in the uk for 2months now, the world beckons once again. Life is so dull here, back at the old job i was doing before i left for Africa. Still doing everything & not getting paid for it. It really just sucks !!!!!!!!!!
When do you stop doing something that you really love and enjoy doing ? is there a point in life at which you say to yourself, right this is my last travel experience ? when is the right time ?
Am already planning my next adventure but at the same time have the desire to get my own place, one year to go before i'm 30 and need to move out of home. Want to do both but know i can't ...........................

Houts Bay, Cape Peninsula

Tanzania

Last couple of long driving days and a 2night/3days gaming drive to Serengeti & Ngorongoro Crater.
spent a night in Arusha before heading onto the game drives. campsote has a snake park with several different kinds of venomous asps, some crocs, few owls & a vulture. Also a Masai Culture Museum. both were included in the cost of the tour. there was also a danger of being greeted by animals at night but that didn't happen. only guests were guinea fowl.
Serengeti & Ngorongoro Crater were one of the highlights of the whole tour, saw thousands of animals and amazing scenery. The Migration of Zebra & wildebeasts is spectacular, getting up close to the animals as well with only a jeep for protection.
Campsites were open to visitors ( animal kind ) and on the 3rd morning, was told my Mel ( my tent buddy for the 2nights) that we had a buffalo right outside our tent in the night. All she could hear was the noise that they make ( like heavy breathing down the phone ) it spent about 20mins around us, she tried to wake me up as i slept through it all but she was afraid to move. Damn, wish i had woken up to have actually experienced it !
The 1st nites campsite had 2 squat toilets and there was our group of 12 plus another truck of 18 and 2 other small parties. So 2 between 40 of us wasn't exactly pleasant. One toilet stank well bad during the day ! weren't allowed to go in the bushes for our safety. We had guards on site for our protection. All in all one very different but wonderful trip to the African Plains !