Daniel Warom - Around-the-World Traveler
- When do you leave?
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- How much have you saved?
- How old are you?
- Nationality
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- Occupation
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- 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?
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- 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?
- If you had to sum up your thoughts/feelings about your round-the-world trip in one sentence, what would it be?
- 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 2002
1-2 Years
Peanuts...
24
England
London, England
I'm unemployed as of 5pm today :)
One more paycheck and I'm gone
No
Well, I fly to LA on Tuesday, 25th June, hang about there catching up with some people. Then I fly out to Rarotonga for a month (or longer if I can). There's an atoll in the Cooks that has a motu with the namesake of the place I grew up. Bizarre and I want to see it. Then it's off to Fiji. Then New Zealand, and finally Sydney. Where I'll be working for a year or more depending on immigration etc. After that – who knows!
I've asked myself a million times why. What in god's name possessed me to walk into STA Travel one day and buy a ticket to Oz. Why am I going? From one side I could tell you that I thought that if I was going to keep drinking in pubs, I may as well see some world while I'm at it. It could have been because I was sick and tired of working my butt off trying to forge a career and lost the fight.
But honestly, its a combination of a million things, most of which I can't count. But most importantly it's never ever felt like the wrong thing to do.
Oh, the usual things. Losing stuff, being robbed, stabbed. All the wonderful things you can find on any street anywhere in the world.
Well, it took a while to get my family on board, but most of them are behind me. My father's helped no end.
As for my friends, they said "If you don't go, having talked so much about it, we'll lynch you." 'Nuff said.
Just Enough
My camera.
Everything else? Well, I've had to carry most of my living possessions round with me this month anyway as I've been bunking on friends' floors. If there's one thing I know, 65 litres of backpack is enough. Period. Most of what's in there is coming out when I get back to the folks'.
I have no idea. That's half the fun!
Contemplative: Lets just see what's out there.
Personally? I've not taken a holiday abroad (out of immediate EC) in 9 years, and I've worked my ass off. That's enough reason for me. For anyone else? Hey, its whatever floats your boat!
No idea. It is scary. Its also amazing. I couldn't tell you what the myths are. I can tell you one fact: Even the planning is a memorable experience.
Because I've done so little, but when I do, I'm happy.
Don't procrastinate. I spent 4 years wishing and about 40 minutes from leaving the front door to changing my life entirely. I did that entire trip on autopilot. I just knew this was the time.
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