Walt Foster - 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 2004
6-12 Months
Enough
59
USA
Kansas City, KS, USA
Ecologist
It's my career
No
3-4 Months in southern Africa - S Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia
6 Months in Australia
1 Month in Fiji
I've travelled quite a lot - 45 states and 22 countries - spent 6 years
working in Eastern Europe. Just decided that I'd take a sabbatical and
see several places I always wanted to see but never had the opportunity
to visit.
That I'll like it so much I won't come home.
Generally - aside from normal worries
Just Enough
Light - I've travelled enough to know that less is better - my camera is
the most indespensible item.
The years I spent living and working in rural Eastern Europe changed me
immensely and I'm sure this will only enhance that.
I want to go NOW - not wait til January
Tourists don't see or learn anything - you have to live with people to
even begin to understand them - and you have to spend time away from home
to understand that the developed world is but a small part of the earth
as a whole - and a tremendously wasteful part at that.
I don't know
I always want to see what's over the next hill - and, as an ecologist, I
love to see all the variety that nature has to offer.
Stretch your boundaries - do it - whatever you run into - good or bad -
you'll never regret it.
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