Susan Elisabeth Davis - Around-the-World Traveler
- When do you leave?
- How long do you plan to be away?
- How much have you saved?
- 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
Not a lot, about AUS$20,000
Australia
Australia
filmmaker
It's my career
No
We are driving from southern New South Wales up to Cairns which is in north Queensland. From there we will fly to Japan and meet up with a friend in Tokyo for a few days and then to Kyoto and from there to Kanazawa on the north-west coast and then on to Takeyama in the mountains and then back to Kyoto, then maybe to an amazing little paper making village called Kuratani. That is as far as our itinerary goes and from there we will wing it and go where the wind blows us. We have a house to stay in at Peveragnio in the northwest of Italy so will head vaguely in that direction.
Decided to take this trip because our children are the right age to do it (8 and 11) and we are in a rut and drinking too much booze. We are into this type of travel because we have Romany heritage and just love to be on the road without too much of a schedule going on.
That there will come a day when we have to head back home/one of us will get sick/we run into a war.
Most people think it is amazing and inspiring. The naysayers live in fear. Poor things.
Winged it a lot
Amex card.
My family and I will quickly develop an enhanced sense of being.
Get me out of here.
People are inherently nomadic. All the trouble started when we settled down.
That it is expensive.
Hate being in one place for too long.
Don't plan, put the word out that you are going... pretty soon someone will tell you about your first destination. Pack a bag, walk out the door.
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