What do I Think I'm Doing?

So the current plan is to go on an amazing trip around the world.Lets be pretty clear on this: I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. I'll be coming out of university next year with what looks like very little money and I'm planning to take that and go for broke on a 6 month trip from here in Canada to Europe to Asia and finally to Australia. Being a poor-ish university student working two jobs to pull through on rent and my next years tuition; I figure the next year and a half of my life should be very interesting and maybe even blog-worthy.

Step 1: Go read a book

I know I should be probably looking at visas or finding employment for when I finally get to Australia, but I figure I dont know the first thing about either of those daunting tasks so I'd start with something simpler. My friend turned me on to a book by Lonely Planet called "A Year of Adventures" which he picked up a couple of weeks back. It's a beautiful book for the around 23 dollars I shilled out to get it and shows popular locations and activities all around the world for each week of the year. I'm going to go through it over the next couple of weeks to find awesome things to do along the way (an early favorite is the Via Ferrata pictured below).

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Step 2: Start a blog

I figure since I have no idea what I'm doing, maybe other people can somehow learn from my mistakes. Blogging is popular with all the travel-folk that I know and I'm not exactly one to run out and start a twitter account.

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Traversing on Via Ferrata Della Trincee, courtesy of
http://www.colletts.co.uk/vf.html

Step 3: ???

To be entirely honest, I haven't exactly gotten this far. I've searched around the web to find all the logistics for the trip which I happened to open simultaneously in order to crash my web browser... Fail. Taking things one at a time I suppose my next step is to find visas, though I might use my upcoming visit home to convince my parents to help me out with part of the trip as a sort of graduation present (I know my dad has always wanted to go visit scotland).

I plan to use this blog to post things that I come across as Im planning my trip and to blog about what I do once I actually get my feet wet. If you're interested in following along as this poor, energy drink addled, ADD student struggles to make this amazing adventure happen, please do. Though if no one ever does read this, I suppose it might be less embarrassing.