Costs so far.

Here's a list of the major things I've spent money on for the trip:

$1303 for the airfare on United Airlines from YVR to Beijing and return from Bangkok to YVR.
$ 271 for multi-trip travel insurance with BCAA
$ 126 for vaccinations for Typhoid Fever and Hep A, there's more to come still.
$ 100 for my 6 month multiple entry travel visa to China
$ 340 for my Canon Elph SD600 digital camera with 2GB SD Card
$ 87 to renew my Canadian passport

Total: $2107

I've also had the luck to have some good parents and awesome friends to buy me things I've needed for my trip.

$ 130 for a pair of Salomon trail running shoes. (Thank you Ali!!! My feet will thank you!)
$ 222 for my 80L Asolo Navigator backpack. (Thank you Mum!)
$ 35 for my Lonely Planet guide Southeast Asia on a Shoestring. (Thank you Ali again!)

New Total: $2494

So thankfully I've been preparing long enough to have had a birthday and Christmas to stockpile items from friends and family those are definitely the best and I had to include them because they are all being used daily on the trip.

I may be forgetting some things but I think that's all I've got so far. I'm also going to have to buy malaria pills and probably another vaccination for Cholera/Traveller's Diahrea called Dukoral and those two things are likely to cost just over $100. That's all for now.

Getting it all Together for the Journey

I'm travelling to China and South East Asia for three months starting on May 1st, curiously one of the big Chinese holidays celebrating the communist workers. I'm going with one good friend Dave, and we'll likely spend about a month in China and two months in the South East Asian countries but really we have no idea and watching this space you'll find out where and when we get everywhere. Of course this assumes that I can find internet cafés everywhere and that I actually stick to my guns and report back while I'm, hopefully, having a little too much fun, and everything else.