If Indiana Jones can do it ...

The best food in the world is ...

The injuries me and my stuff have now acquired ...

What, how and where!

iPod Touch faulty headphone jack - Jez's pocket jangling! - somewhere in Utah, USA

Shortened sleeves of long sleeved tops - jobsworth laundry dryer operator - Santiago, Chile

Lost The North Face hat - one minute it was there, the next minute ... - Wanaka, New Zealand

Scratched face off belt buckle - slamming my body into a rock face - Queenstown Hill, New Zealand

Torn grey The North Face trousers - over active washing machine - YHA Rolleston House in Christchurch, New Zealand

The world's sorest mouth ulcer - Lariam malaria tablets - All over Sydney, Australia (you carry them with you!)

A cruciate-esque knee pain - pounding the streets of Tokyo - Kyoto, Japan

Belt buckle hinge snapped during removal - sadly not in the throws of passion - Nagano, Japan (belt is now retired hurt!)

Comedy finger framed sun burn - not paying enough attention during application of factor 23 - Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

Red ant bites - standing still for too long in one place and taking photographs - The Temples of Angkor, Cambodia

More sun burn but this time blanket coverage - malaria tablet sensitivity induced - Koh Samed, Thailand

Ouchie in growing toe nail - kicking fixed, small boulders - Khumbu Region, Nepal

Belt number two bites the dust - am I getting too fat with this lack of training?! - Cairo, Egypt

Cut head - not crouching low enough to enter Tuthmosis III's roughly hewn tomb in the Valley of the Kings - Luxor, Egypt

Gashed knee - dropping too hastily onto the desert floor to get a great shot from ground level - Petra, Jordan

Last Updated: Sunday 30 November 2008

The revised route having just bought the Italy to England FINAL flight ... 13 November 2008

London, England - New York City, New York - Washington DC - Chicago, Illinois - Denver, Colorado - Moab, Utah - Las Vegas, Nevada - Los Angeles, California - Lima, Peru - La Paz, Bolivia - Santiago, Chile - Auckland, New Zealand - Christchurch, New Zealand - Melbourne, Australia - Sydney, Australia - Tokyo, Japan - Hong Kong, China - Hanoi, Vietnam - Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Bangkok, Thailand - Kathmandu, Nepal - Delhi, India - Cairo, Egypt - Amman, Jordan - Rome, Italy - Venice, Italy - London, England

Books that have enlightened, entertained or helped me so far ...

USA - Lonely Planet
The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
A Season On The Brink - John Feinstein
The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
Turpentine - Spring Warren
The Art Thief - Noah Charney
Into The Wild - Jon Krakauer
Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince - J K Rowling
South America On A Shoestring - Lonely Planet
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - J K Rowling
Digital Fortress - Dan Brown (Don't waste your life by reading it!)
New Zealand - Lonely Planet
Only The Land Endures - Brian Macknell
The Lord Of The Rings Location Guidebook - Ian Brodie
Gollum (How We Made Movie Magic) - Andy Serkis
Between A Rock And A Hard Place - Aron Ralston
Blindsight - Maurice Gee
Velocity - Dean Koontz (Instantly forgettable!)
Down Under - Bill Bryson
Sydney Encounter - Lonely Planet
Memoirs Of A Geisha - Arthur Golden
Travel Photography (A Guide To Taking Better Pictures) - Richard I'Anson
Japan - Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet Phrasebooks - Japanese
(Illustrated) A Look Into Japan
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory (Instantly memorable!)
The Tutankhamun Affair - Christian Jacq
Hong Kong Encounter - Lonely Planet
The Lonely Planet Story - Tony and Maureen Wheeler (Inspirational!)
Khmer Art in Stone - Pich Keo, National Museum of Cambodia
Cambodia - Lonely Planet
Thailand's Islands and Beaches - Lonely Planet
Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos And The Greater Mekong - Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet Phrasebooks - South East Asia
The Ancient Civilisation of Angkor - Christopher Pym
Travels in Siam, Cambodia, Laos and Annam - Henri Mouhot
The Snow Leopard - Peter Matthiessen
My Quest For The Yeti - Reinhold Messner
High Adventure - Edmund Hillary
History Of Nepal - Daniel Wright
The Death Zone - Matt Dickinson
Short Description Of Gods, Goddesses And Ritual Objects Of Buddhism And Hinduism In Nepal - Handicraft Association Of Nepal
Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara - Dr Ranjana Bajracharya
Nepal - Lonely Planet
Ka - Roberto Calasso
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
India - Lonely Planet
River God - Wilbur Smith
How To Read Hieroglyphs - Lehnert and Landrock
The Search For Ancient Egypt - Thames and Hudson
Valley of the Kings - Dr Moahmed Nasr
Egypt - Lonely Planet
Petra The Rose Red City - Thames and Hudson
Jordan - Lonely Planet
Ancient Rome - Collins Gem
The Uffizi The Official Guide - Firenze Musei
Italy - Lonely Planet
The Agony and the Ecstacy - Irving Stone

If Indiana Jones can do it ...

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The injuries me and my stuff have now acquired ...

The revised route having just bought the Italy to England FINAL flight ... 13 November 2008

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Books that have enlightened, entertained or helped me so far ...

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