- When do you leave?
November 2003
- How long do you plan to be away?
6-12 Months
- How much have you saved?
£10,000
- How old are you?
30
- Nationality
England
- Where do you live now?
Birmingham, England
- Occupation
IT consultant/bitch
- 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
- Have you traveled around the world before?
No
- 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.
- 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.
- 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....
- 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.
- How much planning and preparing have you done?
Winged it a lot
- 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....;-)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What is the biggest myth that people have about round-the-world traveling?
Again, ask me in 12 months and 31,000 miles.
- 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....
- 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.