Around the World Travel Guide
RTW Guides(628)
Perry and Joyce Brooks – Round-the-World Travelers
Personal Stories: Courtney S. Ries
"Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou." I say the words so quickly there isn't room for the breath.
Personal Stories: Petra Stormen
Before I left to travel around the world last year, people around me had their worries about whether traveling is such a good idea in the current politically unstable global climate.
Phil Donachie – Around-the-World Traveler
Philip Bell – Around-the-World Traveler
Philip Weston – Around-the-World Traveler
Plan Your RTW Trip
Planning a round-the-world trip starts with choosing your route and destinations. You'll want to think about how long you're traveling, which regions matter most to you, and what kind of experiences you're after.
Plan Your RTW Trip in 30 Days
RTW30 is BootsnAll's round-the-world planning course: one email a day for 30 days, taking you from "I want to do this someday" to a route, a budget, and a departure date. It launched in February 2013 and ran in five editions. Here's what each one covered, and where things stand while we rebuild it.
Planning
Round-the-world travel planning follows seven distinct steps. Start with your "why," build through budgeting and route planning, handle logistics, gather gear, manage pre-trip details, and prepare for life on the road.
Planning Your RTW Route
Planning your RTW route means starting with 3-5 "pillar" destinations you absolutely want to visit, then building the rest around logistics rather than trying to see everything. Most first-time planners try to visit 20+ countries and end up exhausted; experienced travelers visit 8-12 and go deeper. Consider transportation links between countries (getting from Peru to Southeast Asia is expensive and time-consuming), visa limitations, seasons and weather patterns, and honestly how much you want to move versus stay put.