- When do you leave?
- How long do you plan to be away?
1-2 Years
- How much have you saved?
£250000
- How old are you?
47
- Nationality
Wales
- Where do you live now?
Leeds, England
- Occupation
unemployed
- Is this job one that you actually like, or are you only doing it to pay for the trip?
One more paycheck and I’m gone
- Have you traveled around the world before?
No
- What is the route you plan to take/places you plan to visit?
Go West! Beach holiday for two months then Peru, Central America, Alaska, Fiji, NZ, OZ & India
- Why did you decide to take this trip? What got you into this type of travel, and/or influenced you to go?
TO fit all my wishes in it would take twice as long!
- What is your biggest fear about this trip?
Mozzies.
- Are your family, friends, co-workers, etc., supportive of you? What is their opinion of your going around the world?
Parents think we are mad, friends think we are brave.
- How much planning and preparing have you done?
Just Enough
- What are you packing? What do you consider your most indispensable item(s)?
iPod, Laptop, address book,
- 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?
Will not know until after the event. Hoping to lose weight.
- If you had to sum up your thoughts/feelings about your round-the-world trip in one sentence, what would it be?
Excited and aprehensive at the same time!
- 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?
People can do what they want – I am not preaching.
- What is the biggest myth that people have about round-the-world traveling?
I don’t know!
- Why do you like to travel?
I love to see different places, meet different people, immerse myself in different cultures.
- What is your advice for people planning their own RTW trip?
Ask me when (and if) I get back.
April 2005