19.95%

By alexhumpage On 31/05/2016

It's 85 days since we left the UK on our big adventure. Assuming the longer end of our time scale this puts us at a tiny bit under 20% of the trip so far.

As several friends and family have acknowledged, 12 to 14 months.com is yet to see the number of intended updates and posts detailing our journey so far (although Céline has been much better than I, especially if you're reading in French).

The amount of things we have seen and done so far has been truly breathtaking in their scale, and many of the experiences almost defy description. The last two weeks traveling through Borneo have been particularly notable, with superb wildlife both on land and under water. In just the last week we found the kind of island paradise which at points of my life I've wondered even existed in the world - just the two of us and our boat man, and the most beautiful blue sea and sandy beaches with not another soul for miles.

At the time of my last post we were in Myanmar, a country where we had two interesting and enjoyable weeks but were happy to move on from - the brutally ordinary cuisine and the onset of their new year celebrations, which consists of four days of water fights (tourists a preferred target for the hose welding masses) accelerating our departure.

A brief stop in Thailand before flying to Manila where we had a breakneck month traveling all across the country. For the first time since we came away we really met a wide cast of people here, both locals and fellow travelers, and in 30 days that flew past tried to see as much of the place as we possibly could. Seaside relaxing it really wasn't but it was none the worse for it.

And from there to Borneo. Again an unscheduled destination, booked as the cheapest flight out of Manila (and in a hurry too, we found out the day we flew into the Philippines that the airline wouldn't let us on without an entry ticket). Tomorrow we fly again, to Raja Ampat and perhaps the furthest and most remote place we will be, certainly on this continent. Timor and Vietnam beckon, and we're toying with axing Cambodia. It's incredible how little time you have in 14 months away...