Day 1: I visited @adamcath to chat about his experiences traveling before heading off to Utah. Before leaving I took a photo(or rather had someone else take it) of the place I'd called home for the last 6 years and hope to call home for many more.It was a hard day saying goodbye to everyone I know and everything that's familiar for a year. But I knew the feeling would pass, and by the next day the excitement of the journey had taken over.

Here’s an overview of my trip for the next year.

Where are you going?

The general itinerary is:

-1 month skiing around Utah and Colorado

-Ultra Music Festival in Miami In mid march

-3 months in europe

-3 months in America, some time in eastern europe

-Another 3 months in europe

-3 months in South America.

The reason I am splitting Europe into 2 parts is because of Schengen visa. It basically only allows you to visit Europe for 90 days out of 180 day period. There’s no way around it(trust me, I looked for days and days).

Other countries that I may/may not go to:

-India

-South Korea

-Australia

Egypt(and other african countries)

-Morroco

 

Here’s a general timeline. I mainly made this timeline to figure out how to get 6 months in Europe with the best weather months.

Jan and Feb are reserved for South America.

What are you doing?

TL;DR: climbing, backpacking, hiking, drinking, eating, EDM,  history, meeting people

I like the outdoors a lot, so naturally there will be a lot of that. Most of my hard technical climbing I’ll leave to when I’m in the US(since that’s where my gear is and it’s hard to travel with lots of rock climbing gear). However, I still plan on trekking up some big peaks, such as Mount Elbrus(Russia, 18.5k, highest peak in Europe), The matterhorn(guided 5.4 trip in Switzerland), and plenty of 20+ peaks in Ecuador and south america(both guided and unguided).

I also plan on doing my fair share of backpacking and hiking. Tour du Mont Blanc and the Gokyo lakes trail are two that I’m excited about.

Of course, as every traveller does I’ll be eating and drinking. I’m excited to take tours of various famous wine country in Spain and Italy. I’m also very excited to try out the food in various countries. I’m hoping to take lots of cooking classes along the way to learn more about the cuisine.

I’m excited to learn about the different types of alcohols that came from a region — when I went to Mexico, it was really cool to learn about Mezcal. I’d love to do that for other countries and their drinks of choice.

I’ll be going to a few festivals here and there — starting with Ultra in Miami, and Tomorrowland in belgium. I’ll go to other festivals and they come up and I get more into the scene.

Where will you be staying?

A combo of everything — hostels, hotels, airBnBs, couch surfing. Tents ahah. Whatever works best for my budget.

Come join!

If you’re travelling anywhere in the world, and you want a travel buddy, let me know! Especially if it’s an outdoor adventure. If I’m on that side of the globe wherever you are, I’ll try and meet up with you!

What else?

I still have to talk about budget, where I’ll be staying, etc. That’ll be another post.

Ice climbing during Ouray Ice Festival. Right before I accidentally knocked off that thin spire of ice ?: @minhchaumein

So it’s happening! I’m travelling! If you’re reading this, I probably sent you to this blog one way or another. Here’s what you can expect from this blog:

I’m going to try and post updates as I travel. In the past, I’ve tried blogging a few times in the past and writing about every single day, but that was exhausting. When I do that I end up only making it a few days into the trip before giving up. Instead, what I’m going to aim for is writing a short blog post at least once a week. That’ll keep things a little bit lighter on the workload, but still be enough to be consistent and engaging.

If you want to subscribe to updates, feel free to add your email to the subscription box on the write and you’ll be emailed when you I write something new. Be sure to check your spam. It appeared in my spam when I did this, so it’ll probably appear there for you too. Or, you can be like Darren and just subscribe to my rss feed(however that works…)

Other things:

1. This blog will be updated with a interactive map that shows you where I’ve been, connecting all the places with a line. It will have an attached blog post for each location.
2. I’ll try to integrate my Instagram with the blog so new instagram posts show up in the feed, as well as on the map

 

For now, you can follow me on various things:

follow on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kevin117007/

chat with me on facebook:https://www.messenger.com/t/kevinjonaitis117

 

Looking forward to writing on this blog!