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Author: Sean Keener

Serafin Tijerina – Around-the-World Traveler

  1. When do you leave?
    January 2007

  2. How long do you plan to be away?
    6-12 Months

  3. How much have you saved?
    $80,000

  4. How old are you?
    62

  5. Nationality
    Mexico

  6. Where do you live now?
    Monterrey, Mexico

  7. Occupation
    Organizational consultant

  8. Is this job one that you actually like, or are you only doing it to pay for the trip?
    It’s my career

  9. Have you traveled around the world before?
    No

  10. What is the route you plan to take/places you plan to visit?
    South America, Europe, China and Australia.

  11. Why did you decide to take this trip? What got you into this type of travel, and/or influenced you to go?
    Because my wife and I are going to get our 65th of age in 2007 and we are thinking to spare time enjoying ourselves and the wonderfuls of the world.

  12. What is your biggest fear about this trip?
    Isolation, hot weather – 90 fahrenheit degrees or more, miserable places.

  13. Are your family, friends, co-workers, etc., supportive of you? What is their opinion of your going around the
    world?
    They are amazing about that, something unusual but promising.

  14. How much planning and preparing have you done?
    To the Nth Degree

  15. What are you packing? What do you consider your most indispensable item(s)?
    Cloths, bath items, camera, maps, some medicine, e-mails available, money.

  16. 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?
    To have a profound encounter with us and our selves, enjoyed and spare time, to know the wonders of the world – natural and sofisticated.

  17. If you had to sum up your thoughts/feelings about your round-the-world trip in one sentence, what would it
    be?
    A prize of our long term effort, as a couple of married, growing children and granchildren and working hard.

  18. 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?
    We are looking for a real change, insightful, for the rest of our lives.

  19. What is the biggest myth that people have about round-the-world traveling?
    I do not know.

  20. Why do you like to travel?
    We learn a lot, that help us to have fun and a broader perspective.

  21. What is your advice for people planning their own RTW trip?
    Take your own chance.