Hey fellows,

it’s been a while since I’ve written where I’ve been.

Short-term update: Right now I’m in Mexico. I came here at the 28th of October. More specifically, I am now 85 km south of Mexico City, in Cuernavaca. I’ll stay a little longer in this area as I am going to go to a language school.

But where have I been since my last english blog entry?

As I said, I made my way to Vancouver. Came here on a sunday night, 5:00 a.m. and felt safer than in Winnipeg.

Whatsoever, I made a big trip through the Rockies. Went to Jasper and Banff and some other, small cities. Kelowna or Hope for example. I’ve made a lot of pictures and panoramas.

Eventually, I arrived again in Vancouver. After a few days of hanging around (lot to see in that city) I made my way to Vancouver Island. Victoria was my first stop. Later I’ve rented a car and drove up to Tofino, which seems to be a surfer’s paradise. I also tried my luck and did a surfing lesson. Fun!

After the trip to the island, I came back to Vancouver and rented another car. Now I drove north of Whistler. In Whistler will be the Winter Olympics in 2010, you can feel the spirit right now. I stayed in Pemberton.

And in those days I found out that in Mexico will be the “Dia de los muertos”. Maybe you have heard of it, people celebrate their dead ancestors. It is a nice custom.

So I decided spontaneously that I will go to Mexico (it was the 27th of October). I wanted to go to a spanish speaking country anyway and this was the perfect reason to do this right now.

And I’m very happy about this. Cuernavaca is surrounded by mountains and the temperature is all year around 24°, which is amazing.

My plans are that I’ll try to go through Central America and end up eventually in Peru. But, of course, I’ll blog this. Maybe also in Spanish.

Hey english-speaking dudes,

for all of you I’ll write from now on from time to time some entries in english. Yeah, describing my route and some special things.

First of all, my trip began in Toronto. I stayed there a few days and got used to the way of backpacker’s travelling. I was on the very high CN Tower on a sunny day, check my pictures for that and other nice pics. My pictures hide behind the link Meine Bilder on the right side.

After Toronto I went to Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec. I’ve to admit that Montreal is now the #1 city on my fictuous internal famous city list. All of those cities were really European. And really french. They even have some kind of language police over there which controlles if the sings in the streets are really french. Boh.

Got back to Toronto and drove over to New York for a few days. Which is now on place 2 on my cities list. After that, which was a lot of travelling, I went again back to Toronto. I chilled a little and made my way to Winnipeg. After a 31-hour drive I arrived over there. Yep, and at the moment I’m here. I’ll make my way further to the west and will eventually end up in Vancouver.

But more to come then!

Einige von Euch Lesern ist meine Routenplanung ja wohlbekannt, einigen nicht. Fuer die weniger informierten moechte ich mal beschreiben, was ich auf meinem Trip vorhabe.

Als erstes habe ich nun ein RTW (Round the world) – Ticket. Man hat bei so einem Ticket eine bestimmte Anzahl Meilen und Stopover zur Verfuegung und kann sich eine Reiseroute erstellen. Das coole ist, das man die Terminierungen kostenlos aendern kann. Die Destinationen lassen sich gegen 150 US$ auch aendern, und solange man in seinem Meilenkontingent bleibt, ist das ganze finanziell nicht weiter belastbar. Prominentestes Beispiel der Anbieter ist Star Alliance. Meine Route ist:

Bremen – Toronto, San Francisco – Perth, Perth – Singapur, Singapur – Bremen.

Wobei ich dazu sagen muss, das ich zwar in Toronto ankomme und in San Francisco weiterfliege, dazwischen aber gerne in den spanischsprachigen Bereich Amerikas gehen wuerde. So zum Beispiel Peru oder Ecuador. Also habe ich ein wenig weitere Flugkosten, die dort auf mich zukommen. Doch vielleicht finde ich ja eine guenstige Moeglichkeit, weiter in den Sueden zu reisen. Wie zum Beispiel den Greyhound.

Ja, und ich hatte geplant, in Kanada zu arbeiten. Aber nachdem ich das RTW – Ticket aufgetan hatte und somit die Moeglichkeit, die Welt zu bereisen, rueckte diese Idee in weite Ferne. Zumal es doch komplizierter war, als ich dachte, von Deutschland aus einen Job in Kanada zu finden. Naja, zumindest habe ich es geschafft, mir eines der 500 Work & Travel – Visas fuer Deutschland zu sichern. So koennte ich also, wenn ich wollte… aber wir werden sehen.