That sounds like a great adventure :)

I've got the same problem with lack of fire-type (and electric-type) Pokémon here. But water Pokémon are all over the place so I'm slowly but steadily working my way towards having enough candies for a MagiKarp evolution and then I will have my very own gyrados. I've seen a lot of those on gyms but none in the wild so far.

I'm definitely in it for the catch-em-all aspect of the game now. Speed levelling is *hard* above level 20.