About My Travels
I have been a world traveler since I graduated from the University of Washington
with a degree in zoology in 1982. My first trip last almost 3 years
except a few months break back home in the middle. Since then I have
done 6 shorter trips that lasted from 1 year to a couple of months.
These days I am working full time and don't have the chance to travel
on longs trip, but my job as a photographer and researcher for the Oregon State University Marine Mammal Institute takes me all over the world as we tag large whales.
In 2007 I recently went to Antarctica and will be going to the Gulf of California off of Baja,
Mexico in the spring. There is also some chance for a trip the Russian far East to
tag gray whales off Sakhalin. I have now have been to all seven continents.
To travel as I did in the past does not take a lot of
money. I traveled mostly in poorer countries where the cost is low. I
usually stayed
at the cheapest accommodation I could find and ate at the same places
common people do. When I first started traveling the US dollar was very
strong and I could travel on about $5000 per year. Now it costs about
50% more then at that time, but it is still cheaper than the cost of
living here. To do the same you just have to live frugally while saving
money and most importantly stay out of dept.
For more info on the kind of travel I do check out Lonely Planet's and Moon Puplication's web sites. These companies publish a series of guide books for "backpacker" travelers.
These are the countries I have traveled to so far: Canada, United Kingdom, Holland, Germany, Italy, Vatican City, France, Monaco, Greece, Israel, Egypt, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Costa Rica, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, and Antarctica. This may seem like a lot of countries, but I have friends from Japan who have been to 112 so I have a lot of traveling to do to catch up with them. Many of these countries I have been to more then once, especially the ones in Asia (I have been to Japan 12 times for example). I try to spend about 1-2 months in the larger countries, less if there isn't much to see.
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