06-06-2025, 08:54 AM
My bff did it, having done the Alaska river and train one and then the euro river she was so taken by the beautifully managed tour thing the Ghan seemed a natural close to home follow up. And she did enjoy it, did it with the same group they struck up a friendship with on the euro one. But she said it wasn't the same, for two reasons - one, they all got totally sick of red earth landscapes, lol, and second, it was too close to home - not foreign enough. Which is a rather weird reason but then maybe not. She was also not entirely well on the Ghan trip so I think that influenced her feelings.
But these were really good investments on their part, because she got one of those awful diagnoses on her return and died a year later, so we were all really pleased she had had those adventures.
Of them all the far north one was the stunner she said, worth doing every year if someone could afford it!
I was deeply jealous. In my experience travel is the one thing we can all spend some money on that pays back so much more in life experience. I don't regret a penny of the thousands I have put into the trips I have done. Such incredible memories, such huge learning.
But these were really good investments on their part, because she got one of those awful diagnoses on her return and died a year later, so we were all really pleased she had had those adventures.
Of them all the far north one was the stunner she said, worth doing every year if someone could afford it!
I was deeply jealous. In my experience travel is the one thing we can all spend some money on that pays back so much more in life experience. I don't regret a penny of the thousands I have put into the trips I have done. Such incredible memories, such huge learning.