Thursday, July 19, 2007

Gap year

I'm coping with a boring patch at work by listening to back to back episodes of Excess Baggage, a BBC radio programme about travel. In the last 24 hours I've heard dozens of tales of people's adventures across the globe, bringing into painful focus the fact that the last time I ventured to a new country was 2003! Ideas are swirling around my brain, slowly taking shape as escape plans. I think perhaps it's time I took a gap year! I could renew the lease on my apartment, thereby securing a home for myself, then sublease my spot for a couple months, quit my job (it's about time anyway), and disappear on a hair raising adventure. Ok, so you would never find me paddling up the Amazon or hitchhiking across the Sahara, but there are some once in a lifetime adventure destinations I'd love to hit up...
Peru Georgian Republic









Vietnam Samarkand












China
I also want to go to Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town and Zanzibar, and travel the length of the Trans Siberian Railway. I wonder if I could actually get away with it!






5 comments:

Side of Jeffrey said...

I am obsessed with travel after hitting up Spain in June. My tops are Egypt, New Zealand, Greece, South Africa and India.

Lauren said...

Hey -- give me until next May and I'll go, too. Somehow.

I really want to go to Peru.

Anonymous said...

Go for it Genevieve. If you don't travel when you are young there are always other things to spend your money on later - Dad and I have three of them, and wonderful they are!! The world is full of wonderfully exotic places just waiting for lovely Genevieve to grace them.

Bilaeva said...

New Zealand and India are definitely on my list as well! I'm completely serious about going somewhere though...I have no career path so why not!

Anonymous said...

When it comes to travelling I think Africa is still the undiscovered continent. Stay away from the bog standard safaris though.