- When do you leave?
- How long do you plan to be away?
6-12 Months - How old are you?
28 - Nationality
Portugal - Where do you live now?
Lisbon, Portugal - Occupation
Computer Analyst and Programmer - Is this job one that you actually like, or are you only doing it to pay for the trip?
One more paycheck and I’m gone - Have you traveled around the world before?
No - What is the route you plan to take/places you plan to visit?
Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Australia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, India and Nepal - Why did you decide to take this trip? What got you into this type of travel, and/or influenced you to go?
I always wanted to do a trip more than a couple of weeks. I managed to arrange money this year to go, I was very bored in work and a good friend is coming with me. - What is your biggest fear about this trip?
That my friend and I don’t get along well. - Are your family, friends, co-workers, etc., supportive of you? What is their opinion of your going around the world?
Everyone was very supportive. They think it’s great that I’m going and most of them would like to have the opportunity and courage to leave everything and go away. - 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)?
Basic clothes for cold and hot weather, sleeping bag, head phones, Lonely Planet books and other literature, camera, ash-tray, diary, documents and money. - 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?
I’ll learn how to get free from situations I had never face. I don’t think It will change me as a person but I hope I will find out what I want to do with the rest of my life. - If you had to sum up your thoughts/feelings about your round-the-world trip in one sentence, what would it be?
It’s going to be an alive movie. - 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?
In two weeks you can’t disconnect from your world and way of life. - What is the biggest myth that people have about round-the-world traveling?
In Portugal is that almost anyone has done it so people don’t speak about it at all. - Why do you like to travel?
I love especially to talk with people with different mentalities, see nature with different sights and aspects and different foods and tastes!
January 31, 2002