Welcome! What to expect from this travel blog

Welcome!

If you’re looking at this, I’ve probably directed you to this site and told you this is where you can follow me on my travels.

This blog, or website,  is a work in progress. I feel like people always throw one of those “under construction” pictures across the front, like this, so let me get that out of the way:

Well anyways, here’s what you can expect from this blog:

1. I will setup a “live tracker”, like polarsteps (https://www.polarsteps.com/), that allows you to see exactly where I am/have been, and links to pictures. I’ll need to mess with it a bit so it’s inaccurate enough so I don’t DOX myself.
2.  I will probably spend time updating this webpage so it’s more…interactive. I like wordpress, but I’ll probably want to do some coding projects while I’m on the road to keep myself entertained. So expect this website to change. I’ll make sure that blog.kevinjonaitis.com always has up-to-date information.
3. My instagram photos will continue to auto-post to this page. You’ll be able to tell it’s from instagram if it says “Instagram image” in the title.

 

In terms of content, I will NOT post every day; that’s exhausting. I will try and post something for every “location”, I go to; that could be a city, a country, or an excursion. Ideally my posting frequency will be every few days to a week, depending on how busy I am. I will try to keep the polarsteps updated daily however.

 

Some things I will post soon when I have time:

1. Contents of my 1 bag
2. In-depth itinerary for my worldwide travels
3. Planning/training/trip of Aconcagua

 

In terms of initial timeline and locations, here is what I will b doing:

1. Mexico City for 12 days; I will be climbing 3-4 20k+ peaks with my friend Matt from San Francisico
2. Ecuador, for maybe a week; will be climbing Cotopaxi
3. Aconcagua, starting February 3rd through Feburary 21st(19 day expedition)
4. Peru with Nacho and Sean for 2 weeks
5. Europe for 3 months starting the 2nd week of march! Starting in either Italy, Spain, or Portugal.

Then it gets a little more ambigious. I will leave Europe for 3 months(due to the Shegean visa requirements I’ll explain in another post), go back to Europe for 3 months, and then for December/Janurary 2024 bop around other places.

 

Some locations inside Schengen Europe I hope to visit include:

• Spain
• Italy
• Sweden/Norway/Finland/Netherlands
• France
• Germany
• Portugal
• Switerland
• Hungary?
• Greece?

6 months is not a lot of time to visit the 12 above countries(2 weeks a country), so I’m going to really have to think hard where I want to go.

Outside of Europe, I’m excited to visit the following countries:

• Turkey
• Japan
• South Korea
• Singapore
• India
• Nepal
• Australia
• Columbia
• Brazil
• Parts of Africa
  • Morocco
  • South Africa
  • Madagascar?
  • Namibia/Botswana/Zimbabwe

Activities that I’m excited to do while travelling:

• Climb Aconcagua
• Tour de Mount Blanc
• Climb the Matterhorn
• Everest basecamp trek
• Iowaska
• Festivals
  • Tomorrowland
  • Burning Man
  • EDC
  • Electric Forest
  • Creamfields?
• Conferences
  • Gencon
  • Defcon
  • RTX?

I’m sure there are other things I’m missing, but these are what’s top of mind right now. It’s going to be a great year! Fingers cross no injury, global pandemic, or anything else stops me this time! It’s a big itinerary, and a lot to do in 12 months, so we’ll se what I get to!

I’ll be posting in another week or so, so check back later and I will update it.