Travel - but of the fun kind
Right now the thing foremost in my mind is a holiday. Preferably a long one, involving a beach somewhere. It's really distracting.
As Andy pointed out yesterday, getting some travelling done may ease the itchiness in my feet and allow me to make a better choice about whether to stay in Canberra or not. So I'm taking some definitive steps.
Or at least buying Lonely Planet guides. The man at the bookshop looked at my guide books for West Africa and the US and commented dryly "I wonder which one is more dangerous."
My best guess right now is about 8 weeks off in the summer with a round-the-world ticket. I will obviously try to catch up with my dear friend Catherine in the UK. I'm really keen on West Africa, especially Ghana, as a destination (and have been for some time) given the key attributes of cheap beer, awesome funk-fusion music, beautiful beaches, grinding poverty and chloroquine-resistant malaria. Sierra Leone has all the above but with the added possibility of civil unrest. I might also do a cross-country trip across the USA - although it will be pretty icy in February in the places I want to visit.
Here's to travel - of the fun kind.
Categories: Miscellaneous
Tags: travel; ghana; usa; malaria
posted by Dave @ 3:29 PM
4 Comments:
a guy sent me this
If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 US troops in the Iraq theatre of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.
The firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period.
That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in the U.S. Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.
Conclusion: The U.S. should immediately pull out of Washington.
BIL
good luck with finding somewhere you like ...
You really may want to avoid Sierra Leon
Have fun on your trip
February is quite possibly the worst month ever for visiting the US. Nothing cool happens (unless you count presidents day, which I'm sure you're down to celebrate), and it's the worst possible weather in pretty much every state. At least wait until march!
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