Comments on: Update: “Vagabonding Ireland at 41″ http://www.vagablogging.net/update-vagabonding-ireland-at-41.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:14:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: rolf@rolfpotts.com http://www.vagablogging.net/update-vagabonding-ireland-at-41.html/comment-page-1#comment-1121 rolf@rolfpotts.com Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:28:23 +0000 http://qs1937.pair.com/users/bootlabs/vagablogging.net/_wp/update-vagabonding-ireland-at-41.html#comment-1121 Hi Rolf, I recently read Vagabonding and it has been a great inspiration for me in my decision to travel around the world. Although the book is great, it would be nice for someone with some extensive travelling experience to tell me whether or not my iternerary is too ambitious. I feel as though I might be trying to fit too much into one trip. Here is what I have so far: June: Fly to New Zealand (Interested in renting a car with my 2 travelling buddies) July: Fly to Australia (Probably explore the east coast then fly to Perth) August: fly to singapore. overland to Bankok ( or mabye further) September: Fly to Beijing. overland to Shanghai and Hong Kong October: Fly to India (Mumbai, Delhi, not sure where) November: Fly to South Africa. overland to Nairobi December: Fly to Cairo. Overland to Tel Aviv or mabye Istambul January: Flight to Rio via Europe. overland to Buenos Aires February: travelling around Patagonia March: make our way up to Uruguary, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador via overlanding and flights April: Cross the Darién Gap via flight and/or boat. Overland through Central America. Fly home at the end or April. This is a very tentative plan. I don't know if this is too much ground to cover in a year, but my goal go to every continent and get a good feel for it (i have already been to Europe). i know that i won't be getting to know any one place too well, but do you think this is feasible? Do you have any suggestions for other places I might go? I will be travelling on a budget, but my goal is to save up $15,000 worth of spending money. (not including the flight costs.) do you think that this should be enough? I know that I have asked a lot of questions, but I thought it would be worth it to have a seasoned traveller look over my plan. Thanks for you time and I look forward to hearing back from you. John Whaling Hi Rolf, I recently read Vagabonding and it has been a great inspiration for me in my decision to travel around the world. Although the book is great, it would be nice for someone with some extensive travelling experience to tell me whether or not my iternerary is too ambitious. I feel as though I might be trying to fit too much into one trip. Here is what I have so far:

June: Fly to New Zealand (Interested in renting a car with my 2 travelling buddies)
July: Fly to Australia (Probably explore the east coast then fly to Perth)
August: fly to singapore. overland to Bankok ( or mabye further)
September: Fly to Beijing. overland to Shanghai and Hong Kong
October: Fly to India (Mumbai, Delhi, not sure where)
November: Fly to South Africa. overland to Nairobi
December: Fly to Cairo. Overland to Tel Aviv or mabye Istambul
January: Flight to Rio via Europe. overland to Buenos Aires
February: travelling around Patagonia
March: make our way up to Uruguary, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador via overlanding and flights
April: Cross the Darién Gap via flight and/or boat. Overland through Central America. Fly home at the end or April.

This is a very tentative plan. I don’t know if this is too much ground to cover in a year, but my goal go to every continent and get a good feel for it (i have already been to Europe). i know that i won’t be getting to know any one place too well, but do you think this is feasible? Do you have any suggestions for other places I might go? I will be travelling on a budget, but my goal is to save up $15,000 worth of spending money. (not including the flight costs.) do you think that this should be enough? I know that I have asked a lot of questions, but I thought it would be worth it to have a seasoned traveller look over my plan. Thanks for you time and I look forward to hearing back from you.

John Whaling

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