Hans Petter Daviknes - 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?
August 2002
6-12 Months
£5000
23
Norway
Sheffield, England
Student/journalist
It's my career
No
Brazil - Argentina - Chile - New Zealand - Australia - Bali - Singapore - Malaysia - Thailand
I've always been interested in the world and I like long bus journeys...
I come from a beautiful country myself, and I'm convinced there are more beautiful places out there to be seen. I enjoy meeting people, and I've always been a dreamer. Time to do something about that. There must be more to life than getting an education and working until you die. I need to do "something" before adult life catches up on me.
Getting robbed or assaulted. It has happened before and I don't want it to happen again. I'll be careful, but hopefully I won't miss out on anything.
My mother doesn't like it; my father grudgingly approved as long as I come back and start making a living for myself. Most people I know would like to come with me.
Just Enough
I'll try to go light. I do want to bring my SLR and my zoom lens though. Being a bleak Viking, sunscreen will be pretty indispensable...
From what I've heard I'll learn to be even more patient than I already am.
I hope more than think that the trip will let me "settle down" a bit more and take up a "normal" lifestyle. At least for a couple of years... to please my parents.
I am incredibly excited, and worried, but the excitement by far outweighs the worry.
One and two weeks vacations are fine, as long as you escape the resorts. RTW travel opens for exploring different aspects of the country you're visiting.
Don't know that one.
Because the world is too big to be seen from my armchair at home.
Do research on the internet, but don't overdo it. Keep some surprises till when you get there.
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