Hi,

I'm tentatively looking for a travelling mate for a trip I'm just starting to plan out right now.
The rough plan is to travel to Europe (in my case to Hungary) from Australia and take a year off doing it.

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Australia (August-October 2011):
- leave Sydney during August 2011, work my way up on the East coast to Cairns, mix of dirt and tar in about 2 weeks
- couple of days looking at backpackers and the Reef, drinking
- join a trip up to Cape York, about 2 weeks round trip
- some more relaxing action and bike maintenance back down in Cairns
- head across the Sandover Hway to the Rock
- up the Tanami Track to Halls Creek
- Gibbs River road to Darwin
- 2 weeks of Darwin, sorting out bike and shipping

SouthEast Asia (November-January 2012):
- ship to Dili or somewhere in Indonesia
- work my way up north through the islands of Indonesia and Malaysia
- Thailand-Laos-Cambodia, looking into Vietnam
- fly out from Bangkok to Kathmandu

Nepal-India (February - April 2012):
- Nepal for a month
- a lap of India, then into Pakistan

Stans - Russia-Ukraine...etc ( May 2012 - August 2012):
- will look into Mongolia as well

It's a pretty vague plan at the moment, but once I came back from another trip at the end of September, I will start working on it.

Obviously, if someone else gets involved, I'm open for any change, except the starting date (which is set by the end of my contract and the nature of the route).

About myself: I'm in my early 30's, a pretty laid back guy with a Hungarian origin, I was living in OZ for 2 years now and been discovering a lot of it already. I did a few 5000km+ trips so far traveling solo (in Oz and NZ), mix of tar and offroad, and some more serious dirt stuff on weekenders. That said, I'm not a dirt racer, rather go far slow, than nowhere fast.

About the bike, gear..etc: it will be a DR with the usual mods and some more preparation to make sure it survives the roughly 40-50.000km this trip involves. I got most of the equipment necessary already and in good order.

The reason I'm looking for a mate is that because it's more fun that way.
Anyways, give a sign of life if this sounds good enough

Cheers,

Andras
andras-ikladi.com