Alex Johnson - Around-the-World Traveler
- When do you leave?
- How long do you plan to be away?
- How much have you saved?
- How old are you?
- Nationality
- Where do you live now?
- Occupation
- Is this job one that you actually like, or are you only doing it to pay for the trip?
- Have you traveled around the world before?
- What is the route you plan to take/places you plan to visit?
- Why did you decide to take this trip? What got you into this type of travel, and/or influenced you to go?
- What is your biggest fear about this trip?
- Are your family, friends, co-workers, etc., supportive of you? What is their opinion of your going around the world?
- How much planning and preparing have you done?
- What are you packing? What do you consider your most indispensable item(s)?
- How do you think your round-the-world trip will change your life? How do you think it will affect and change you as a person?
- Why do you think people should go on round-the-world trips? Why not just take a regular old one- or two-week vacation instead?
- What is the biggest myth that people have about round-the-world traveling?
- Why do you like to travel?
- What is your advice for people planning their own RTW trip?
June 2005
6-12 Months
$4.12
16
USA
Corvallis, OR, USA
Student
One more paycheck and I'm gone
No
Portland, USA
LA, USA
Nadi, Fiji
Auckland, NZ
Sydney, Oz
Hong Kong, China
Overland to Bombay, India
Tel Aviv, Israel
Overland to Cairo, Egypt
Harare, Zimbabwe
Overland to Cape Town, S. Africa
Over Sea to Buenos Aires, Argentina
North via buses home (except for short flight over the Darien Gap)
A friend of mine has been traveling for the last year and a half, and
gave the bug to me. Although my wanderlust is routed deep inside, it took
an outside force to make me look at vagabonding around the world.
That I will become extremely homesick. Surprisingly enough money does not
rank highly for me, should it? :)
I've told my Mother, but I don't think I'll tell my Dad and step mom. I
figure it'd be easier for them to take if I just ran away. Maybe I'll
tell them, at the gate in Portland.
Planning is for tourists
My contacts will be very important for me. My footbag. My CAMERA.
Otherwise, I can't think of all that much. I guess I'll probably bring
clothes....maybe.
I'm not exactly sure. I read a quote once, by some author. He told me
that it is a wonderful thing to travel, and return home to find that
everything is the same, it is you who have changed.
"I don't want to hurry it. That itself is a poisonous twentieth-century
attitude. When you want to hurry something, that means that you no longer
care about it and want to get on to better things."
- Robert M Pirsig
I'll tell you when I get back.
What a strange question. That is akin to asking the dying man, why do you
want to live?
Talk to people who have travelled, they're smarter than you.
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