- When do you leave?
Oct-06
- How long do you plan to be away?
6-12 Months
- How much have you saved?
15K
- How old are you?
42
- Nationality
Canada
- Where do you live now?
Ontario, Canada
- Occupation
Entrepreneur
- Is this job one that you actually like, or are you only doing it to pay for the trip?
It's my career
- Have you traveled around the world before?
No
- What is the route you plan to take/places you plan to visit?
Don't have a route - but I know where I want to travel to- japan (2nd visit)
- Why did you decide to take this trip? What got you into this type of travel, and/or influenced you to go?
My business is tea and I am eager to learn how other cultures embrace their unique individual style of tea ceremonies.
- What is your biggest fear about this trip?
regions with war and other civil conflict
- Are your family, friends, co-workers, etc., supportive of you? What is their opinion of your going around the world?
somewhat supportive
- How much planning and preparing have you done?
To the Nth Degree
- What are you packing? What do you consider your most indispensable item(s)?
not sure yet as it depends on my route. still poring over packing lists from other traveler's websites.
- 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?
travel always changes people. perspectives and interactions between cultures has always fascinated me. Objectivity is also important.
- If you had to sum up your thoughts/feelings about your round-the-world trip in one sentence, what would it be?
no comment
- 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?
one or two-week vacation is such an antique way of traveling esp from a north american perspective. stay home and renovate your house instead. being herded off on tour busses or shut inside resorts, what can one possibly learn from that except aggravation.
- What is the biggest myth that people have about round-the-world traveling?
no comment
- Why do you like to travel?
sensory experience knowledge and understanding learning bits of new languages
- What is your advice for people planning their own RTW trip?
read read read ask lots of questions research