Dan Ornsby – The Unseasoned Traveller

 

PART 1

It’s not like I haven’t been anywhere or haven’t ‘lived’, I try to make the most of every day. But as far as travelling, numerous trips to Aussie (including

Got the bike, now the fun begins!

climbing Ayres Rock and snorkling the Great Barrier Reef), and a family holiday to Rarotonga (which was great), there’s so much as yet that I haven’t seen; and time is a ticking…..

Vietnam is a country I have wanted to visit since a young age, and in recent years there has been a lot of talk.  But as they say, talks cheap!

It was about this time last year, I was out walking with my eldest daughter Savanna, who at 28 years of age, is somewhat of a ‘seasoned traveller’.  As you do, I’m making excuses as to, how it’s probably not going to happen for a while.

“I don’t know if I can afford it right now”.  Even though Vietnam is renowned for being a cheap place to travel to.

“I don’t know if I have the time”….  That sort of thing..

Anyway from that walk and chat that day, my dream has become reality.  Thanks Savvy 🙂 And, with my 50th looming in September, and winter being a quiet period at work, I made a deadline……