This is the first post of our Round The World trip (RTW). How it got started: Carol and I were looking at a dive trip to Thailand sponsored by our friends Steve and Kathy Van Holton that looked too good to pass up. Then we got an email from our friends Roger and Debby Francis inviting us on a Mediterranean cruise to celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary. We couldn't turn them down, even though I've never been on a cruise.
We work short term assignments as nurses so we figured we could plan it out to go on both of them, one mid-June and one in mid-Sept. So, fly from here to Thailand and back to the USA, try to get an assignment for three months, and then fly to Rome. Or, if we can't get an assignment, we'd have to hole up in our RV 5th wheeler somewhere for those three months and spend money in the good old USA. Hmmm- or we could save the money from the return-to-USA trips, and live cheap in Southeast Asia and sightsee, then travel to Rome for the cruise in September. And WOW, that would be an Around the World trip, something that we haven't done before. As Steve would say "Another New Adventure".
Strategy: There are companies that offer RTW air fare, valid for one year, based on how many stops you make and how many continents. So what we need to do is start deciding where we will take-off and land. At this point we want to fly to Vietnam, overland through Laos and Cambodia to Thailand where we'll do the dive trip and tour with Steve and Kathy and the ANA group. Then over or through Burma to India's east coast, through India, over the war counties, (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran) to Turkey, through Turkey to spend some time in Greece, and then on to Rome for the cruise with Roger and Debby. Pre-buying the air fare will allow us the option of jumping on a plane in whatever city we need to, based on running out of money, family emergencies, homesickness or any other unforeseen event.
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