Erik R. Trinidad
Round-the-World Traveler
Erik R. Trinidad has the world in his hands as he plans The Global Trip 2004.
For more on Erik and his trip, see his website and ask: Would you?
October 2003
1-2 Years
US$23000
28
USA
Metro New York City, New York, USA
Designer/editor-turned-travel-journalist
It's my career
Yes
NYC to Quito then overland for 4 months to Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. Side trip to Galapagos too. Then fly to Capetown, overland to Namibia, fly to Malawi, then overland to Addis Ababa. Fly to Cairo and see the Middle East, then off to Morrocco. Take the ferry into Spain, then overland to Moscow to hop on the Trans Siberian Railway. Arrive in Beijing, see the Wall, overland to Shanghai, then fly to India. Overland to Nepal, then fly to Thailand and work my way down to Indonesia. Then the Philippines and New Zealand. Maybe Fiji afterwards if I have some money left.
It's something that was always in the back of my mind, but after reading Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, it was released from my mind and into reality.
Getting ripped off in a con. Snakes. Getting ripped off in a con by snakes.
Yes, everyone is STOKED. They're all jealous and want to live vicariously through me.
Just Enough
2-3 sets of clothes, a small digital camera, my trusty Canon AE-1 SLR, cotton swabs, and duct tape.
I honestly cannot say how it will affect me, only that it most likely will. I can not predict the emotions of "2005 Erik," just like "1999 Erik" would have NEVER predicted the actions of "2003 Erik." If I went back in time and told myself five years ago that in 2003 I'd leave for my second time around the world, I'd say my future self was stoned.
It's gonna be one hellava ride.
Well, RTWs aren't for everyone. But as the famous saying by St. Augustine goes, "The world is a book, and those who do not travel only read one page."
That you have to win the lottery to do so. All you have to do is save a little here a little there, by any means necessary and in a year or less, you'll have enough to go one some sort of an RTW.
It is only when I travel that I feel most alive.
Don't treat guidebooks as Bibles. In all the advice and reading you'll do in your pre-departure preparation, you take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the Facts of Life, the Facts of Life (and Travel).
