David Lyle - 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?
- 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?
October 2003
6-12 Months
£30K-ish for us both
36
Scotland
Glasgow, Scotland
Clinical computer analyst
It's my career
No
UK - Amsterdam - Egypt- Kenya/Uganda - Thailand/Lao/Cambodia/Malaysia- Oz -
NZ - Fiji - USA - UK
Trip of a lifetime, will probably be a one off, and travelling with my
partner. Just need a career break, if we decide we really like somewhere, when we get back we may think of immigrating there.
That something awful happens to family or friends back at home, no
specific fears about the trip itself.
Very supportive, my employers are giving me the career break and I will
go back to my job.
Just Enough
Digital camera and iPod and some good books
I'm sure it will. I'm open to change.
Totally "gagging", so excited, it's my trip of a lifetime.
Everyone should do it at least once, it's a big world, you can't see a
place properly in a short vacation.
That you're dirty amd smelly...rubbish! I'm a total hygiene freak.
'Cause it broadens your life experience, make life more interesting.
Don't go till you have enough money to enjoy it as you want to in your
ideal situation. We waited till we had enough money, so we can do
everything we wanted to do, the last thing we wanted to do was work
during our trip.
Decide where you really want to go and compromise as little as possible, don't choose a set ticket just cause it's cheap.
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