freakwentflyer101

1. When do you leave?
   November 2003

2. How long do you plan to be away?
   6-12 Months

3. How much have you saved?
   £10,000

4. How old are you?
   30

5. Nationality
   England

6. Where do you live now?
   Birmingham, England

7. Occupation
   IT consultant/bitch

8. Is this job one that you actually like, or are you only doing it to pay for the trip?
   I'll come back if they'll have me

9. Have you traveled around the world before?
   No

10. What is the route you plan to take/places you plan to visit?
    Brazil - Peru - Bolivia - Argentina - Chile - Easter Island - Tahiti - New Zealand - Australia - Singapore - Hong Kong - India - Somewhere dark.

11. Why did you decide to take this trip? What got you into this type of travel, and/or influenced you to go?
    Girlfriend dumped me, job is going nowhere fast and living in Birmingham is like being on a slippery slope to Crap-s-ville.
    
    Also reading stories on BootsnAll.com, helped to inspire so much wanderlust, I just had to go.

12. What is your biggest fear about this trip?
    Running out of money.
    or
    being dragged from a car kicking and screaming while being pistol whipped by the local policia.
    
    Oh and running outta suncream....

13. Are your family, friends, co-workers, etc., supportive of you? What is their opinion of your going around the world?
    Family and friends can't wait to get rid of me, so they have been surprisingly supportive.

14. How much planning and preparing have you done?
    Winged it a lot

15. What are you packing? What do you consider your most indispensable item(s)?
    I was thinking about taking my crotch-less gimp suit...
    
    My humour....;-)

16. 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?
    Haven't a clue? Broaden my horizons, make me into a more well-rounded person? Improve my sexual prowess...I really don't have a clue.

17. If you had to sum up your thoughts/feelings about your round-the-world trip in one sentence, what would it be?
    Fly sun eat drink smoke sex smoke.

18. 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?
    Ask me in 12 months and 31,000 miles.

19. What is the biggest myth that people have about round-the-world traveling?
    Again, ask me in 12 months and 31,000 miles.

20. Why do you like to travel?
    Hummmmm, 8 hours a day sitting in front of a hot PC, or lying on my front having my back rubbed by some Brazilian beauty, who's wearing an outfit that resembles dental floss.....
    
    It's a tricky one....

21. What is your advice for people planning their own RTW trip?
    1,sell the car,
    2,get the pets put down,
    3,free up a bit of that equity you alway wanted to.
    4, arrive at airport 2 hours before departure.