Where Next?

64 countries done. More if you count sneaky shore-side lunches when I was working at sea. Which I don’t. I have hiked the Inca Trail. I have scuba-dived the Great Barrier Reef. I have swung across gorges, abseiled cliff faces, zip-lined through jungles and picked up elephant poo with my bare hands.

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SO now what? Its a sad truth but the more you see and experience, the harder it is to be impressed by things. You’re sitting on a beautiful beach in Mexico thinking about how many beautiful beaches you sat on in Thailand. Your mates are all going sand-boarding in Australia but ‘no thanks I did that in Namibia’. This Malay curry is great, but there was this Khmer curry in Cambodia…..Although the travel bug never dies, you somehow become jaded through your own exposure. The inevitable conflict means that you become desperate to see something new but feel sure that nothing will ever truly impress you again. What could possibly excite you as much as sunrise at Uluru? What could be more thrilling than swimming with sharks or seeing a family of gorillas in the Ugandan highlands? Clearly nothing.

Therefore I have been forced to find new places to go, new challenges to complete. In other words, create another ‘advanced’ bucket list. The following consists of new countries (for me to visit obviously) and brand new experiences. What do you think? What is on your bucket list???

Trekking Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend Now I appreciate that this may be one of the most visited parks in SW USA, but its new to me, and it is STUNNING!!

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