This year I plan to do quite a lot of traveling. This schedule is just a first rough outline and will undoubtedly change a whole lot. I have scheduled some things in certain months for a reason, Hong Kong in August for instance is coupled to Shanghai so I can combine the two in one trip and save on airfare. Trips might be added and certainly will if there is a ‘follow-up’ reason to do so.
I have the money and more importantly the time to do it. And while the main reason for my travel shall be ‘business’, I will certainly be a good customer of Lonely Planet this year and buy many of their guidebooks to try and get the most out of those visits from a personal / cultural perspective as well.
Of course, if I find a job somewhere down the line that would change everything. But I will deal with that when it happens, I’m sure I’ll have a lot more to look at.
January
Hong Kong (scouting trip)
February
Singapore (scouting trip)
Somewhere in Thailand (doing the tourist thing, happy birthday to me!)
March
Malaysia (scouting trip)
April
South Korea (scouting trip)
Singapore (scouting trip)
May
Hong Kong (scouting trip)
Netherlands (to visit family and friends, for formalities regarding unemployment benefits, to see executive searchers, to attend a wedding and maybe even to do some freelance work at the Haagse Hogeschool – trip will last into June)
June
London (to visit friends & executive searchers)
Canada? (unlikely, but I’m tooling around with the idea of visiting Toronto while I’m in the Netherlands to visit friends, check out the job market over there and do some networking)
July
Taiwan (scouting trip)
August
Hong Kong (scouting trip)
Shanghai (scouting trip & to visit my friends Frank & Marn who will have moved there by then)
September
Nothing planned at the moment
October
Nothing planned at the moment
November
Japan (scouting trip & to pick up my friend Natalie who will be visiting friends there and subsequently come with me to Bangkok)
December
Nothing planned at the moment