Around the World

I've decided recently that my life is not complete until I circumnavigate the globe. In fact, if I am still working at this job next Christmas, I'm going to quit and take the next 5-8 months to travel around the world.

I found a very cool travel site yesterday called Traveler's Point. It has a very cool feature that allows you to plan your trip and it calculates the airfare for you. Then you can send the plan to a travel counselor and they will book the trip for you. I believe the tickets are open-ended so you can leave pretty much whenever you want.

I've tried a few different trips. Mine range from $5,000-$7,500 which I find reasonable for some weird reason. Here is what I came up with today.

New York - Reykjavik - Amsterdam - Saint Petersburg - Prague - Rome - Cairo - Dar Es Salaam - Johannesburg - Bombay / Mumbai - Varanasi - Bangkok - Hong Kong - Shanghai - Beijing - New York

I'm leaving out 3 continents mind you and most of Europe goes undisturbed. Whenever I go on this trip, a believe me I will, I think I will do a lot of traveling on land between cities instead of flying to each one as the itinerary describes. I also imagine I will have to take this trip solo since few of my friends have the money/desire to do this and we would probably differ on many destinations of choice.

So you can officially count global navigation as a life goal of mine and I plan to do it sooner than later given my nomadic direction in this current lifestyle. Come with?