Official Travelers' Thread
 

So I thought I'd make a thread for anyone interested in traveling, seeing as how I'm in the process of planning a trip to New Zealand. I'll be heading out in early May, and staying until the end of August. Hopefully I'll be able to find work at Treble Cone ski resort, the next best thing would be working in Wanaka, where i'll be living for the majorty of the trip. Seeing as how any kind of job training for the ski restort wouldn't start until mid june, that leaves me with about a month of guarunteed down time. I've thought about spending some time on the north island, maybe trying my hand at surfing (i'm aware it'll be winter, but hey, I'm canadian, cold water doesn't bother me). I know there are a lot of new zealander's on this board, so do any of you have any suggestions of what to do for the first month I'm there? I'd really like to see as much of New Zealand as possible, so any thoughts would be great. Keep in mind that I'm looking to do this as cheaply as humanly possible, like any student traveling to a foreign country.

That said, anyone else got any big trips planned? After New Zealand, my next stop (probably 2 years down the road) will be a backpacking trip through southeast asia, thailand, laos, and china being on the list. I've actually been to thailand before, but I was 7, so I could hardly appreciate the experience. As for countries I've been to so far, the list would be (in random order):
Canada (obviously), parts of the US, Austria, England, France, Italy, Thailand, the Bahamas, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Holland, Sweden and Iceland.

So post your travel plans, your experiences, and pretty much just anything related to traveling you can think of.

I'm goin to Vegas in April, drinkin, gamblin, maybe a show at the Joint or H.O.B. if anyone decent is in town. Should be cool

nice, road trip or are you flying?

flying, it would take me forever to drive. I hate driving

come visit australia, the gold coast mainly. not much snow to ski on but there are waves

haha, I love driving, although only if there's other people in the car. there's another thing I'd love to do, go with 3 other friends and do a road trip from calgary and down through the US, stopping at a bunch of ski hills, and basically living like bums.

and I'd love to visit australia, but money is gonna be really tight, so I don't think I'll have the funds to travel in between.

not my style, if I have to walk for more than 20 yards to get a drink I am thoroughly inconvenienced. Furthermore I cannot live like a bum, I am needy and dependent on my creature comforts

damn.i wish i was old enough to travel. its one of my few dreams i have. i wanna go on the road just like jack kerouac in his book ' on the road'. take 50 dollars in my pocket and head off on a bus west.

50 bucks wouldn't get me across the street

haha, i'm all about "roughing it" (I use that term losely, truly roughing it for me is setting up a tent in the middle of nowhere with nothing but what you can carry on your back) when I travel. I can't do the whole lounging-at-the-poolside-while-a-waiter-serves-me-drinks thing. Even if I had the money to support it, those kind of vacations bore the hell out of me.