A few trips that i am looking forward to making, conceptualised partly to relive the history, the myths that these routes have created, and are steeped in, and for some, like Route 66 and the South American loop on a motorbike, their role in popular culture.
1. Going to London, overland. The hippie highway cutting through Malaysia, Thailand, China, Tibet, India, Nepal, Pakisan, Iran, then to Europe through Greece, passing by Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Austria, Italy, France and finally reaching the United Kingdom.
2. The Pan American highway, starting from Argentina and ending off in Anchorage, Alaska
3. Riding down the Route 66, the classic Jack Kerouac road trip
4. South America on a motorbike, trying to retrace Che Guevara's Motorcycle Diaries
5. India and Nepal, backpacker rite of passage for me, after having seen most of Southeast Asia.
6. The Silk Road
7. Circumnavigating Australia in a camper van
So, if things go as planned, i can probably cross 5 off my list this spring/summer. May will be the departure month, i think, 3 and a half months away as i write this. And as i write this i realise how lucky i am, to be able to take time off to travel long term twice a year, and to know what i seek from this life, and what to me is important and what is not...
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