- When do you leave?
September 2007
- How long do you plan to be away?
1-6 Months
- How much have you saved?
15, 000
- How old are you?
60
- Nationality
USA
- Where do you live now?
Arkansas, USA
- Occupation
retired
- Is this job one that you actually like, or are you only doing it to pay for the trip?
It's my career
- Have you traveled around the world before?
No
- What is the route you plan to take/places you plan to visit?
Hit every continent in 80 days
- Why did you decide to take this trip? What got you into this type of travel, and/or influenced you to go?
We have traveled to Europe and Africa.
- What is your biggest fear about this trip?
none
- Are your family, friends, co-workers, etc., supportive of you? What is their opinion of your going around the world?
very supportive
- How much planning and preparing have you done?
To the Nth Degree
- What are you packing? What do you consider your most indispensable item(s)?
casual clothes--nothing indispensable
- 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?
get a broader view of the peoples of hte world
- If you had to sum up your thoughts/feelings about your round-the-world trip in one sentence, what would it be?
We are very excited and will do much reading and planning over the next2 years.
- 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?
It's important to see and understand the world. As Americans, we tend to be too narrow about other people of the world.
- What is the biggest myth that people have about round-the-world traveling?
get too tired; fear unrest and terrorism
- Why do you like to travel?
Get to see places that we have read about.
- What is your advice for people planning their own RTW trip?
study, study, study--plan and save