Next on my list has been to look into travel vaccinations. I know that we need to get them a couple of months before we leave, so wanted to make sure that we’re all set to go with enough time to spare. I’ve read a few articles, including this one from BootsNAll, basically saying that there are a ton of vaccinations, they’re all pretty expensive, so you really have to pick and choose which ones to get.
Category Archives: Planning RTW 1.0
Finding Busses Are a Pain and Visas are Expensive
As I’m sure you saw in our itinerary, once we’re done with Machu Picchu, we’ll be flying to Iguaza falls and then we’ll be taking buses for every leg between there and when we depart Buenos Aires for Delhi. So, we need to find the following bus routes:
RTW 1.0 Itinerary
Ta Da! Here’s a sneak peak at our itinerary. We only had to print out about 10 different calendars before we got it nailed down.
Pre-Thailand Trip (RTW 1.0) is Booked!
It took a couple full days, a lot of playing around with our itineraries, all of the airline miles that we’ve been saving, and a couple of angry phone calls to Cheap Tickets, but we’re finally pretty much all set with the two month trip we’re taking before moving to Thailand, and all I have to say is that it’s going to be AWESOME.
Telling the Parents
Dave and I have been talking about taking a RTW trip since we met a year and a half ago. We never had a set time-frame, but we always knew it was something we were going to do. As I’ve mentioned before, originally, we were planning to just take a 4-5 month trip around the world. We devised our plan for RTW 1.0 (as we like to call it) in October while we were on a trip to Texas. After speaking to Dave’s old roommate about a trip that he was taking similar to our RTW 1.0, he gave us the moving and teaching idea when he was telling us about his itinerary and about a friend he was staying with in Thailand who did just that.
Are We Crazy?
Dave always asks me if I think people will think we’re crazy for not wanting to settle down and for always being on the go… In my opinion, why wouldn’t we keep trying new things and new places until we find somewhere or something that makes us completely satisfied? If we didn’t, yes we’d be settling down (which I know is what the majority of people want to do), but we’d also just be settling. Work is the thing that takes up the majority of everyone’s time in life, so don’t we owe ourselves at least a year to not only do something we know we’ll love, but also to figure out a way to turn the things we love to do most in life (in our case travel) into something that could be a career for us? I think we do and I think that is going to be exactly what this year is for Dave and me.
I know it’s scary, but I think that this is going to be the best thing that ever happened to us (aside from finding each other, of course)!
One of My Favorite Daily Travel Sites
BootsNAll Travel is an Indie travel website. According to them, Indie Travel is “a departure from routine – an opportunity to learn, have fun, and embrace life in novel environments and cultures.”
Ok, well that sounded pretty good to me, so I signed up to receive daily emails from their site. They do a whole RTW ticket watch thing, which I haven’t found any use for as of yet, but every day they highlight different places and different aspects of Indie travel.
A Piece of Advice From a Fellow Traveler
I’m sitting on a plane on my way to Phoenix for the weekend and met the most interesting guy. I came on board with my Thailand Lonely Planet book, kind of hoping someone would see it and ask me about it so that I could tell them about our trip (hey, I haven’t really been able to tell very many people and I’m so excited that all I want to do is talk about it).
The Stave Diaries 