Around the World Travel Guide

Paul Hastings – Around-the-World Traveler

Paul Roben – Around-the-World Traveler

Pay With Cash When Booking Trips

Perry and Joyce Brooks – Round-the-World Travelers

Personal Stories

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.