Thursday 8 March 2012

Geographic inspiration - places to go before I die

They have a huge stack of old national geographics at the hostel, some dating back to the fifties, but the bulk is from back when mama was a boy* and USSR and East Germany still existed. Ihave ofcourse poured over them, read about all sorts of animals from wolves over whales and head lice, natural phenomonons ranging from hot springs over desert dunes and perma frosts, as well as exotic people and places - the older ones with horrifying and horrifyingly amusing views on the wild africans/new guineans/native americans/Arab deserts/USSR collectivefarms/Patagonia etc.
It's still pretty inspiring, and aparting form wanting a subscription badly (pretty hard when you don't have a permanent adress) there's a million places I want to go. Then there's all the people going through here with some pretty fantastic stories to tell. They've given a few ideas as well.

  • Bike around the Baltic Sea
  • Bike & hike Eastern Europe
  • Bike the UK; Dover to Dunnet/Easter Head (that's the northernmost point in Scotland according to Wikipedia)
  • Kayak the Donau
  • Go by motorbike (cause I'm not THAT sporty) from Patagonia and all the way up through Latin America
  • Bike USA from coast to coast
  • Get a work holiday visa to Canada because you can get that until you're 35, and be a lumberjack and travel by train
  • Sail the Pacific
  • Travel on the transsiberian railroad
  • Africa - the places where you don't risk ending up in a war/civil war/pirate lair/gold mining conflict
  • Bike the East Coast of Australia
  • Ski from Kemi, Finland to Kirkenes, Norway with Papa Bear
  • Learn dog sledding on Svalbard
  • Greenland!
  • Climb mountains in Central Asia
  • To be expanded

How about you guys?


*Anglified Danish joke. Does it work in English?

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