Bob Watchorn’s World Trip July to December 2006
Introduction
I have kept a diary since I was very young. I first started collecting articles and writing notes on subjects of interest to me. This activity had its roots in composition time in Grade 3 at West Launceston Primary School when I was eight. I started my proper diary when I was twelve and over the years I have kept up a fairly consistent recording system. I was always writing up stories and keeping records of daily events and things of interest. Births, deaths, marriages, work, fires, floods, pestilence and general family life. As I grew up and left home got married, had kids, worked, played, prayed, lost, grieved and overcame, the writing continued. It was the natural thing for me to do.
Of course, even in diaries you absolutely cannot write without bias. The exact same event will be written up in a totally different perspective by two different people. It’s like viewing a house from different angles. I’ve included some of the writings of others to give perspective. The same travel diary as described by me, or another, will be entirely different, as we have different things that turn us on and view the world through a different set of previous experiences.
From July to December 2006 I did a mini world trip. For two months I travelled the USA and Canada. I went from Hawaii to Seattle and after buying an old bomb in Seattle motored through the Western United States, focusing on the national parks, then to southern US sleeping in the station wagon car. I then drove to Canada and explored the Toronto area with son Brett’s wife’s parents, Andris and Lorri — fantastic. I then Visited New York and Miami. Then for the next month I ‘Britrailed, Eurailed’ and Backpackered the UK and Ireland’ and then for the next two months did the same over France, Italy, Greece, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal. I finished off with a 10-day tour of Egypt and the last few days on Hong Kong. What a great trip! What fun!
On the world trip I wrote up over 200 pages of ‘Ramblings’ which I sent out to a wide range of friends and colleagues. I would write up the notes on trains, beaches and parks. Every few weeks I would post these notes to Val (my as yet unofficial fiancé) who would type them up. I’d get them back by email and at the internet cafés would correct and send them out. It worked well! I took 10,000 photos on the trip and I have matched some of them to the narrative. Below is the first (Hawaii) installment of the ‘Ramblings’ that relate to that journey around the world…..
| The Bob Watchorn Ramblings Hawaii July 06 | 4.8 MB |
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