Further Updated plans: Hi everyone 😀
I am still enjoying my personal time off from the walk. Thanks to Mary and family for great hospitality and for putting on a party in my honour tonight 😀 She was my very first girlfriend and eventually settled here! We had a lot of catch up laughs this past week 😅
I expect to return to my route (near Yass) sometime in the middle of next week.
I have decided that I will be walking towards Sydney's suburbs on 30th September. I will splash into the Pacific Ocean at Sydney's Bondi Beach on October 1st. That will complete this continent. Anything else walked here is an "extra."
Anyone that wants to join me please feel free. I will post more detailed information closer to the time. Tom Denniss, husband of the long suffering Carmel Denniss will escort me 😀 Tom not only ran around the world but hasn't missed a days running in only 13 years 😅 Yes the man is nuts. I say that all runners are crazy 😅 Carmel crewed him on his world run and they are still married 😀 Anyway Tom knows my route and I will get it from him. Can you believe he asked me to take a route through parks and along some fancy bicycle paths. What's wrong with this.. Well it's an extra 28 kilometres 😂😂 After giving him dogs abuse I finally agreed 😀
However, what to do about the extra 28 kilometres. I decided to make this seem negligible by adding on 'a lot more' kilometres in Australia 😀 So, after prolonged consideration I came up with my 'master plan' I have also decided that I want to walk 'a lot more😅' in Australia as I am enjoying it so much. Yes, I want to walk more 😅👣👣🇮🇪💚🇦🇺 in this amazing country and continue to spread my cancer awareness message: Life is precious. Early cancer screening saves lives. I am also considering some daring routes ahead for the next year and a half or so! If I do decide upon this, I am sure it will surprise even my most devoted supporters. 😀Anyway I will only mention for now that I am walking north from Bondi and then north of Brisbane on the east coast perhaps until the third week in November. Then I will spend about three months tackling New Zealand, the South Island first. That should 'kill off' most of the hot Australian summer 😅
I will return to my Australian route before Feb 21st as that is the final entry day of my multi-entry long term visa. Should I choose I can have another six months here. I will continue my 'extra walking' lol 😀 towards at least Mt. Isa and Katherine. Where to finish Australia, ah yes, that's a problem 😅👣👣 There are three possibilities. Darwin, or a remote place like Derby on the west coast. Or even Perth, where I started in Oz, a full lap of Australia 😀🇦🇺💚🇮🇪
New Zealand thoughts. Due to so many narrow roads and dangerous one way bridges I am considering walking New Zealand with a backpack. I am on the lookout for a place in Brisbane or a place between Brisbane and Mackay to leave Karma, my cart for three months. Also looking for a loan of a backpack!
Proposed Kiwi route starting: South Island first: Christchurch and going south through Bluff, Queenstown, Greymouth to Blenheim. But it could easily start in Queenstown and as far as Christchurch! I don't need to decide now. So, you can see the problem answering the dreaded 'when will you' question 😂😂North island Wellington to Lake Taupa and finish in Auckland or time permitting Cape Regina. Start midish November. Estimated time for NZ is three months.
After Australia it's back to Asia for more 'extra fun walking' Though the continent is already walked I have some crazy route notions to mush around in my head for a few months 😜
Thank to Scott Richards for his design of my new business cards which I plan to get printed in Sydney.
Thanks to Ilya Uzhegov for the use of the photo he took in Kalingrad, Russia. Thanks also to Benjamin Kniebe for his latest updated map of my Australian route. 😀
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