The first steps of a RTW trip are close to home
About a year ago, my husband and I had a conversation where the end result was crystal clear: we want to go on a round-the-world trip at some point in our lives.
The journey to this realization was subtle, but signs were there - it just took a while to clue into them. I have a friend who traveled to India for three weeks. I learned a colleague and her husband had lived traveling across the world, working for their keep. And, as a family we watched "The Amazing Race" every season - each place the contestants went to I wanted to see, but it never really translated into 'we can/could/should/need to' do that, until that discussion last year.
So, of course I turned to the internets to learn more. I had no idea the kind of rabid traveling community that was out there. I read and re-read posts, blogs, tweets, just soaking it in. Some of my favorites are:
1) Nomadic Matt http://www.nomadicmatt.com/ Wide-ranging advice.
2) BootsnAll http://www.bootsnall.com/ Good articles from different travelers.
3) Legal Nomads http://www.legalnomads.com/ Jodi's love of soup...need I say more?
4) Thirteen Months http://thirteenmonths.com/ Well-written and engrossing, but ended too early!
I also spent more than my fair share of time on AirTreks developing some pretty awesome itineraries. Why yes, I think the 'Big Gap Year' will do nicely:
Note: There are many articles that talk about how to afford travel. Given the price of this trip, I have some ideas and plans for our future trip(s). More on that later.
The fun of experiencing travel through these sites and personal stories was inspiring, and I started to think about how I could contribute to the content that I so enjoyed. However, there was one problem: our time for the RTW trip is not likely to be anytime soon, with our son still in school and a job I deeply enjoy. So, what to do?
Then, I read this article: find time to travel, and and my goal changed to the far future to the present. I travel all the time: day trips, work trips, family trips, around-town trips. I have oodles of snapshots with no context whatsoever. So, I thought, why not engage my (pretty dormant) creative writing skills, enjoy and document the current trips, revisit some past experiences that meant a lot to me, and share with others who are interested?
It's exciting to contemplate and I'm eager to get going. Have you ever started a project where you can't see the end result but you started it anyway? What happened? Tell me about it!
The journey to this realization was subtle, but signs were there - it just took a while to clue into them. I have a friend who traveled to India for three weeks. I learned a colleague and her husband had lived traveling across the world, working for their keep. And, as a family we watched "The Amazing Race" every season - each place the contestants went to I wanted to see, but it never really translated into 'we can/could/should/need to' do that, until that discussion last year.
So, of course I turned to the internets to learn more. I had no idea the kind of rabid traveling community that was out there. I read and re-read posts, blogs, tweets, just soaking it in. Some of my favorites are:
1) Nomadic Matt http://www.nomadicmatt.com/ Wide-ranging advice.
2) BootsnAll http://www.bootsnall.com/ Good articles from different travelers.
3) Legal Nomads http://www.legalnomads.com/ Jodi's love of soup...need I say more?
4) Thirteen Months http://thirteenmonths.com/ Well-written and engrossing, but ended too early!
I also spent more than my fair share of time on AirTreks developing some pretty awesome itineraries. Why yes, I think the 'Big Gap Year' will do nicely:
From USD 3984 to 5184
includes taxes of USD 985
San Francisco - Hong Kong - Hanoi - surface - Saigon / Ho Chi Minh City - Bangkok - surface - Phuket - Bali (Denpasar) - Singapore - surface - Kuala Lumpur - Delhi - surface - Bombay / Mumbai - Dubai - Addis Ababa - Nairobi - surface - Johannesburg - Cairo - Istanbul - surface - London - Reykjavik - New York - San Francisco
- See more at: http://www.airtreks.com/airfare/specials/#sthash.jL1Ue48N.dpufNote: There are many articles that talk about how to afford travel. Given the price of this trip, I have some ideas and plans for our future trip(s). More on that later.
The fun of experiencing travel through these sites and personal stories was inspiring, and I started to think about how I could contribute to the content that I so enjoyed. However, there was one problem: our time for the RTW trip is not likely to be anytime soon, with our son still in school and a job I deeply enjoy. So, what to do?
Then, I read this article: find time to travel, and and my goal changed to the far future to the present. I travel all the time: day trips, work trips, family trips, around-town trips. I have oodles of snapshots with no context whatsoever. So, I thought, why not engage my (pretty dormant) creative writing skills, enjoy and document the current trips, revisit some past experiences that meant a lot to me, and share with others who are interested?
It's exciting to contemplate and I'm eager to get going. Have you ever started a project where you can't see the end result but you started it anyway? What happened? Tell me about it!
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