Peter Kilbey - 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?
September 2003
6-12 Months
£2000
26
England
Leamington Spa, England
IT Sales
One more paycheck and I'm gone
No
Asia, Thiland, Phi Phi, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Cook Islands, Los Angeles, San Francisco, back to blighty.
Friends which have done it already and have made me jealous. An urge to get away from the mundane 9-5 slog and see something in the world and do something different before I get tied down.
Coming back! And finding enough work on way round.
Generally supportive - just a few "You irresponsible #@$!" from mother, but she's coming round to it.
Just Enough
Digital camera - a must to remind me when I get back. Still to plan the rest of the backpack.
Hopefully improve my outlook on life in general. Hope to meet plenty of like-minded people.
Can't wait - it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that has to be taken to the full.
You can never get a proper appreciation of different cultures and lifestyles by staying in a hotel and doing the tourist thing.
That it's difficult and that backpackers are lazy soap dodgers.
England is too small and cold!
Start pretty early to get you head around all that is necessary, but don't over-plan as a year is a long time and your plans/outlook might change on what you want. Make sure that you can change flights/itinerary with not much hassle.
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