the idea

30 AUD a day.

a little over five and a half months.

Mexico and Central America.

to experience everything and not miss out on anything.

learn some spanish.

meet people. lots and lots of them.

come back tanned and a bit more knowledgeable.

A food festival in Krakow.

Well after travelling since the start of August I have done the standard tick the box scheme of backpacking. Basically.
I left Perth, Australia on August 3rd and went to England for a week or two to catch up with family and then flew over to Turkey.
From Turkey I did a few busabout trips to make my way through Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria and the Czech Republic.

Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Then I met up with my boyfriend, who like a crazy man, had cycled across Europe from Turkey to Spain.  Together we visited Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Switzerland and then back to England.

For the winter we did a ski season at Sun Peaks Resort where i learnt how to snowboard...ish.

Taking a break for the view on Rambler, Sun Peaks.

But there we were at the end of six months of fantastic pay...not...British Columbia learn how to pay your workers!...with the desire to keep travelling but not really the money to finance it...hence...Mexico and Central America, the South East Asia of the Northern Hemisphere.

All the Canadians and Americans we met raved about their cheap holidays to Mexico at all inclusive resorts, or living off 500 dollars for a month in Guatemala, or volcanoe boarding, or this white sands beach that no one has found yet. It sounded amazing, but we knew nothing about it. Literally. As someone who did their last Geography lesson at the grand old age of 14 I can, not very proudly, say that I had never even heard of Nicaragua. I thought it was a country in Africa.

So now with Lonely Planet guidebooks in hand, and very small backpacks bought from the ubiquitous Walmart, we have headed off for the next frontier for Australians to dominate.