Dan Leonard
Round-the-World Traveler Round the World Travel GuideYour One-stop Source to Plan & Book Around-the-World Trips
Winnipeg. An internet cafe somewhere on Osbourne. (No not Ozzy.) Note the gormless expression, the beady eyes. Have you seen this man?
August 8-December 12, 2000
25
England
S.Yorks, England
I got back with no money!!! So needed a job and took the first one I got offered. The RTW trip has always been a good ice-breaker, and the stuff I did when travelling is good and interesting to use in interviews.
New York, Overland to Canada (Toronto to Vancouver), Seattle, Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Singapore (stop-off), Nepal, India (stop, off), HOME!
Always wanted to travel ever since I saw my great-aunt's collection of postcards/stamps from the around the globe. Always like to be moving so RTW is ideal... "where do I sleep/eat/drink tonight??" I also enjoy the solitary/meditational aspect of travelling, and seeing new things and meeting new peoples.
EVERYTHING! (even below!!)
– threat from a disgruntled Vietnamese cab driver!
The Laos waiter who asked if he could sit at my table and chat so he could practice his English and who then showed me the city of Vientiane the next day and asked for nothing in return.
Just Enough
Good boots, portable clothes line, Aloe Vera.
Water purification stuff, too many clothes, Lariam tablets!
Hmmmm... RTW made me realise a lot of stuff about myself, and what I wanted. Now I'm back I keep forgetting that. Realise what I was capable of.
Tokyo subway with a rickshaw on my back, the mountains in the distance and the skyscrapers above, the coffee tastes too good and the rice needs soya sauce, no whales today MCDONALDS! More trips to far-flung exotic places. When I get married we will honeymoon in Thailand and Laos.
More trips to far-flung exotic places. When I get married we will honeymoon in Thailand and Laos.
Take the traveller and the tourist: the essential difference is, that the traveller don't know where he's going and the tourist don't know where he is!!
Kids are kids. Go any where in the world and kids are kids, they smile, they play and they pester grown-ups.
A lot of people travelling the world live in the "RTW" bubble. They follow the same routes, go the same places and do the same things as last year's mob. Then make out they are somehow unique. No matter where you go, it's VERY hard to be anything more than "johnny tourist" with a big bag.
To see stuff.
