Welcome to HoneyTrek.com

By On September 19, 2011 · 12 Comments · In Etc

While we continue building out HoneyTrek we will answer a few basic things:

Q: What is HoneyTrek?
A: HoneyTrek is our slightly delayed (we got married March 12, 2011) honeymoon trip around the world. The plan is to go places too far to visit while we have a job and too rugged to do when we’re old. Don’t try to see everything; move slowly but thoroughly. Have a plan to guide us but don’t let an itinerary bog us down. If we love a place, we’ll get to know it, meeting locals and living the local way. We not trying to change the world but we’d like help where we can.

That said, this is an E.B.White quote that rings very true to our hearts:

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to change the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it very hard to plan each day”
E.B.White

We hope that our HoneyTrek allows us to do both: Experience so many amazing people/places/foods/animals/environments/music/architecture/art/ideas and at the same time volunteer and constantly brainstorm how we can apply our skill sets to make the world an amazing/loving/peaceful/self-sustaining/smiling place.

Q: Where will you be going?
A: While we are leaving our trip pretty open-ended and not making many hard and fast plans, here is our loose itinerary:

South America:
- Brazil
- Argentina
- Uruguay
- Chile
- Peru
- Bolivia

Africa:
- South Africa
- Mozambique
- Zambia
- Kenya
- Tanzania
- Madagascar
- Seychelles

Asia:
- Nepal
- Tibet
- China
- Japan
- South Korea
- Laos
- Vietnam
- Cambodia
- Thailand
- Malaysia
- Singapore
- Indonesia

South Pacific:
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Fiji

Q: How can we follow along?
A: EMAIL:  If you had to pick just one way to keep up with our travels, signing up for our newsletter is the absolute best way! We would love to have you subscribe to our newsletter (see the box to the right to enter your email address). We will only send you something when we make a new post, and you can be certain we will not share your email address with anyone.
FACEBOOK: http://Facebook.com/HoneyTrek
TWITTER: http://Twitter.com/HoneyTrek

Q: Can we partner with HoneyTrek?
A:  A resounding yes. We are looking to connect with companies in the travel industry that would like to align their brands with a energetic couple on a 500-day Honeymoon around the world. If you are a hotel, airline, tour operator, B&B, hostel, website, etc., and you would like to chat about a potential partnership please do not hesitate to reach out to us MikeAnne@HoneyTrek.com or by phone, (888) 852-9384.

In closing we would like to say how excited we are to have you along for this journey. We look forward to hearing your thoughts on countries we are going to visit, seeing your reactions to ones we are leaving, and growing together as we experience the tremendous beauty the world has to offer. It is going to be wild ride, we hope you are ready!

With so much love and Aloha,
Mike & Anne

 
  • http://www.twoOregonians.com twoOregonians

    Hello, friends! So excited for your upcoming trip. Hopefully we can share adventure tales from the road. I absolutely love your E.B. White quote: I may have to adopt it to add to our inspiration list. It captures the conundrum so well. Best to you as you prepare to embark! 

    • http://HoneyTrek.com/ Mike Howard – HoneyTrek.com

      Hey guys, just wanted to send some love your way. You two are so kind, and we are definitely looking to sitting down and chatting once we get on the road, and the maddness of switching off our life settles here in NYC. haha.

  • http://twitter.com/livingdreamrtw Jeremy

    Hooray! I love the blog name.  We will be doing something very similar as a post honeymoon honeymoon.  Ish.  Ok so not really the same but we try!

  • http://www.GQtrippin.com Gerard ~ GQtrippin

    Can’t wait for this. How long is your trip?

    • http://HoneyTrek.com/ Mike Howard – HoneyTrek.com

      16 months. Yeah isnt the excitement ridiculous? I mean the world is our oyster….cant even imagine you guys, leaving in 7 days. That is awesome. Looking forward to following along on your parallel journey, and learning lots from you guys about Asia!

  • http://twitter.com/thatbackpacker Audrey Bergner

    Hey, just found you guys through Twitter! I’m looking forward to reading about your upcoming travels. Looks like you’ve got quite the journey planned out! :D Happy travels

    • http://HoneyTrek.com/ Mike Howard – HoneyTrek.com

      Thanks so much Audrey, both for following, and for taking the time to leave a comment. We look forward to sharing lots of crazy experiences over the next few years…..

  • Staci Jones

    What an awesome plan! We married and honeymooned for one month on a cruise around South America. There is a geocache called “Fin del Mundo” in Ushuaia at the end of the world, and you must tango in Buenos Aires…stop in at Cafe Tortoni for the authentic experience. The national tango school is right upstairs. If you’ve got the cash, fly over the Nazca Lines out of Pisco, Peru.

    • http://HoneyTrek.com/ Mike Howard – HoneyTrek.com

      Staci, thanks SO much for your tips, and for leaving a comment. That means a lot. If you think of any other tips, we made a blog post for each country so we can keep them all in one place, would love to hear them - 
      http://honeytrek.com/have-any-tips-on-argentina/

    • http://HoneyTrek.com/ Mike Howard – HoneyTrek.com

      #1. We LOVE geocaching, will be doing that all over the world. #2. tango in BA for sure! oh are the nazca lines those huge geometric shapes in the desert formed with rocks forever ago?

  • http://twitter.com/WeddingsnTravel Stirling Weddings

    This sounds like an adventure of a life time. Hats off to you two for having the courage and ability to explore the world. I look forward to hearing all about your journey, adventures and exciting stories from all over the world.
    I’m a wedding planner and travel agent and am always looking for unique destinations to offer my clients to experience whether it be a leisure vacation or a remarkable location to start their new life together. Please let me know if I can assist you along the way with your travel needs.

    • http://HoneyTrek.com/ Mike Howard – HoneyTrek.com

      Thank you so much! We are so excited, and have been thinking about this and saving for years now….and we are 9 days from lift off…..eeekkkk….. We would love to hear any amazing resorts that you think might be interested in having us visit them and share their story with our blog readers, and our partner sites.