- When do you leave?
- How long do you plan to be away?
6-12 Months - How much have you saved?
£10,000 - How old are you?
30 - Nationality
England - Where do you live now?
Birmingham, England - Occupation
IT consultant/bitch - Is this job one that you actually like, or
are you only doing it to pay for the trip?
I’ll come back if they’ll have me - Have you traveled around the world
before?
No - What is the route you plan to take/places
you plan to visit?
Brazil – Peru – Bolivia – Argentina – Chile – Easter Island – Tahiti –
New Zealand – Australia – Singapore – Hong Kong – India – Somewhere dark. - Why did you decide to take this trip? What
got you into this type of travel, and/or influenced you to go?
Girlfriend dumped me, job is going nowhere fast and living in Birmingham
is like being on a slippery slope to Crap-s-ville.Also reading stories on BootsnAll.com, helped to inspire so much
wanderlust, I just had to go. - What is your biggest fear about this
trip?
Running out of money.
or
being dragged from a car kicking and screaming while being pistol whipped
by the local policia.Oh and running outta suncream….
- Are your family, friends, co-workers, etc.,
supportive of you? What is their opinion of your going around the
world?
Family and friends can’t wait to get rid of me, so they have been
surprisingly supportive. - How much planning and preparing have you
done?
Winged it a lot - What are you packing? What do you consider
your most indispensable item(s)?
I was thinking about taking my crotch-less gimp suit…My humour….;-)
- 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?
Haven’t a clue? Broaden my horizons, make me into a more well-rounded
person? Improve my sexual prowess…I really don’t have a clue. - If you had to sum up your thoughts/feelings
about your round-the-world trip in one sentence, what would it
be?
Fly sun eat drink smoke sex smoke. - 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?
Ask me in 12 months and 31,000 miles. - What is the biggest myth that people have
about round-the-world traveling?
Again, ask me in 12 months and 31,000 miles. - Why do you like to travel?
Hummmmm, 8 hours a day sitting in front of a hot PC, or lying on my front
having my back rubbed by some Brazilian beauty, who’s wearing an outfit
that resembles dental floss…..It’s a tricky one….
- What is your advice for people planning
their own RTW trip?
1,sell the car,
2,get the pets put down,
3,free up a bit of that equity you alway wanted to.
4, arrive at airport 2 hours before departure.
November 2003