Thursday, May 6, 2010

Shopping around

Went to the travel agent today, I lucked out and the guy I spoke to had done a working holiday there so I picked his brain on the subject, the most disconcerting thing I have found is the wages in British Columbia are worse than Australia, but not a dealbreaker by any means. I also found out that since I've hit the shoulder season and I'm trying to book close to my departure date the price has gone up, I could wait a month or so and save $400 but it's not really worth it for that kind of money. Going to try another travel agent and see what they can offer, but I'd say it'll be about the same, but yeah it was good to get a bit of information from someone who has done it before.
I also went to the library and browsed a few backpacking and travel books for tips on backpacking. Not that I'm an inexperienced traveller however it's the first time I'll be travelling internationally alone, so I need to be prepared and organised. I've also been reading all I can on Canada and familiarising myself with the geography of the place through Wikipedia and Google maps, but I've found using good old fashioned maps has been educational as well, overall I figure the more familiar I am with the region the better oriented I'll be.
So tomorrow I might head back to Brisbane and have a second look at bags (at the moment it's a tie between the Osprey waypoint 85 and the Karrimor Tropic 65) and maybe buy one, and speak to another travel agent and catch up with some friends.
Today was a good day!

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