About

About  Ben See

Age 17 – 1980: Hitch hiked around NZ with two girls for 6 weeks, went everywhere, back late for start of school yr 12. Great time. This is where I caught the travel bug!

Age 19 – 1982: Cycled solo (with tent), Sydney to Byron Bay – via Newcastle, Taree, Coffs Harbour, Grafton.

Age 20 – 1983; Cycled solo, (with tent), East Coast of Tasmania – St Helens, Bicheno, Coles Bay, Richmond, Hobart.

Age 21 – 1984: Hitch hiked solo, ( with tent), Sydney to Darwin via Townsville and Mt Isa. Flew Darwin to Bali, Indonesia. Road trip by Bus, Bemo, Potato Truck, up through Java via Yogyakarta, Solo,  Mt Bromo, Sumatra, via Nias Island, through Lake Toba, to Medan. Return to Sydney.

Age 26 – 1989-1990: Flew Sydney to New Delhi, India, then Kathmandu, Nepal. Travelled overland in Jeep with roof tent, 3 guys, 3 +months from Nepal, through India Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Hungary, to Austria. Backpacked through Liechtenstein, Switzerland, France, to London, (kicked out of van  ‘just because?’, on Autobahn in Switzerland go figure?), worked for 3 months in London, flew back to Sydney.

Although I have visited and traveled in a number of other lands, the great Southern land holds my imagination now.

Enquiries

walkroundoz@gmail.com

Mob: Nah!