How To Go Around The World

The Second Time Around

As many of you remember, four years ago,

two pair of siblings ~ my kids and my brother

and I set off to explore the world.  We 

circumnavigated the globe, we said it was a

trip of a lifetime.  We called it The Last Hurrah

Tour because my daughter Kate had just 

graduated from high school and my son Brennan

would graduate the following year.  We thought

this would be the end of travels with the kids,

they would be going off on their own adventures.

So when I started hearing talk of another big trip

to celebrate the college graduations, I thought to 

myself, "Didn't we already have the trip of a 

lifetime?"  Did this thought stop me from joining 

in?  Oh, of course not.

And here we are, four years later and ready to do

it again.  That brought up the question of where

should we go?  My brother said to me, "When we go

back to Cambodia..."  I questioned why we would go

 back there.  He said he thought we all loved it there

and wanted to return.  This is true we all want to go

back but I wanted this trip to be about discovery, not

revisiting.  So we all talked about it and agreed, we 

should not repeat the places we have already been to.

Now, for my brother, who has traveled everywhere, 

there are many places he has been before but he will

be discovering the places with us for the first time.

People ask us how do we plan all of this?  We will be

blogging about the process of planning a big trip in 

the weeks to come ~ there are many layers.

The first step is where you want to go.  We all gave

a list with ideas and then we started building a plan 

around that.  India was on everyone's list and we 

also wanted to visit Oceania since none of us had ever

traveled there before.  Here is the itinerary:

Prague,Czech Republic

Istanbul, Turkey

Mumbai, India

Delhi, India

Jaipur, India

Pushkar, India

Agra, India

Singapore

Kuta, Bali, Indonesia

Ubud, Bali. Indonesia

Sydney, Australia

Auckland, New Zealand

Tokyo, Japan

Los Angeles, California, USA

Santiago, Chile

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Rio de Janiero, Brazil

New York, USA

Eighteen cities, twelve countries, five continents.

The only repeat for me is Istanbul but the kids 

had never been there and it was a great deal so 

we put it on the list.

That is step one, know where you want to go.

Stay tuned for more layers... and adventures.