Round the world trip

I'm planning on making a trip between august and christmas this year. My vague plans go something like this:

- Leave UK - Toronto (including Niagara) (about 1 1/2 weeks) - Train to Vancouver (would like to spend some time in the countryside in canada, is this better to do on the east or west coast?) - Vancouver (about 1 1/2 weeks) - San Francisco (about 1 week) - Hawaii (about 1 week) - New Zealand (about 1 month) - Australia (about 2 months, including Sydney, Uluru, the east coast, not too bothered about Perth and WA) - Thailand (1-2 weeks) - Home

Does this seem reasonable? and does anyone have any comments at all about my possible destinations? any comments at all will be gratefully accepted.

Melbourne Melbourne Melbourne Melbourne

Shame... you'll be missing some of the best of Australia

on 5/22/04 9:25 AM:

Agreed....and the OP is also missing some of the best parts of Canada (east

My opinion,

Avoid spending to much time in city's. 1 month for new zealand is an absolute minimum. Australia is huge. 2 months is OK buth make your choises. Not to much.

Dostio

I've been travelling with a camera including rolls first, which was ... well ... somehow I lost few rolls and another two got f***** up, when my camera broke. so i bought a digital camera, no prob so far as some postings before this one mentioned. beware though: some cyber cafe owners prefer to download and burn for you, so you might not damage/hack their computers. they ALWAYS pretend being able to do it ... somehow they ARE ... the last guy 'killed' bout 4000 pictures - six months work - because he said ... 'of course, no problem, i'll do that for you'. so: if you have digital ... DO IT YOURSELF!!!!

Unless you want to send the photos by mail, you don't need to plug your camera to the computer at the internetcafe. If you want to mail photos, you have to edit the pictures, to give them a mailfriendly size. If you have to edit a mail you need a photoediting program as for instance Photoshop. Some Internetcafes have that installed and then the cameradriver is often allready installed at the computer. Some internetcafes do not have a photoediting program and then you have far more serious software probelems than downloading the camera driver. If you need to download the cameradriver, this is done in seconds. Make sure to bring the homesite of you Camera producer, where you can find the right driver.

If you don't want to mail the photos you can go to a photostore and ask them to copy your flashcard to a cd (I have payed 5-10 times the price for an empty CD-rom for this, meaning it is not expensive). This is only necesary if you are out of flashcards or want a back up of your flashcard. An alternative to copy your flashcard to CD is of cours to buy a new flachcard but that is normaly way more expensive.