Laura Clark - 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?
January 2005
6-12 Months
So far £4000. Will have around £8-9000 by the time I go
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England
London, England
Work in a sales office, and I have a part time bar job
One more paycheck and I'm gone
No
From London to Bangkok, travelling around Thailand for around a month.
Then down to Perth for a little while, flying to Melbourne, and then
overland from there to Cairns for about 6 months, stopping at
Sydney (working there for a month or so), Canberra, Brisbane and other
places on the way up. Flying over to Auckland, travelling around NZ for
6wks to 2months, then from there to America to see the family on the way
home in San Fransisco, Denver and Boston (to get completely spoilt on the
way back home when I'm broke!). Then back to rainy old Blighty. Boooooooo!
I've been to a fair few different places, but I've never travelled
extensively. When I was at uni I met so many people who had taken time
out to travel - they'd been to the most amazing places, and it really
inspired me to do the same. I went to Australia for 3 weeks in 2000 and
loved it, and I'm desperate to explore further!
Probably the security of my possessions, and not getting stranded in some
god awful guesthouse in the middle of Bangkok!
Everyone I know is really supportive, and quite envious. My Mum keeps
asking if she can come too! Some of my friends who are less open minded
don't understand why I want to do this, but on the whole everyone gets it!
Control Freak
I'm still at the stage where I'm looking at what to take and leave behind
- BootsnAll's advice pages and boards are very useful for this! My most
indispensible items will prob be my (cheap!) camera, so I can make
everyone at home jealous with all my snaps, my mosquito repellent, and my
combination padlocks!!
I'm anticipating that this trip will greatly effect the way I want to
live my life and what I want to do with it. I hope that it will give me
some clue as to what I want to do (other than travel!), as at the moment
I'm pretty lost on that front.
I think that as a person I'll hopefully become more open minded (not that I'm closed-minded now!), and more willing to be spontaneous. It'll hopefully make me a little less materialistic too, as I'm forcing myself to realize that I can't take my ghd's and complete wardrobe with me!!
Annoyingly overexcited! (Tho I hope in a cute way, not
'Oh-my-god-someone- kill-her-now-just-to-shut-her-up' way.)
Trips like this open you up to new cultures, people, places, and
ultimately, new possiblities. They make you realise that your little
set-up in small-town suburbia is a miniscule part of a big wide world,
and its more than likely that the world has far more interesting and
amazing things to offer than you'd ever get at home.
That, if travelling alone, you'll be lonely, or if with someone else,
you'll get sick of one another. You will always, always meet people of a
like mind.
Because I want to see the world, and the world is bigger than Enlgand!
Take every oppoutunity that arises!
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