first entry

After graduating from a Master's, my boyfriend at the time, Jason, and I thought it would be great to take an amazing world tour. In the government, you can take three months off of leave without pay for personal reasons. Because I didn't have a job, but was being bridged into a full-time position when I finished school, I negotiated with my employer to prolong my start date until I came back from my trip.

Jason took the lead on planning this trip, mostly because he was bored with work and wanted to go somewhere crazy. So we talked about an endless summer world tour. His friend is now teaching ESL in Korea so he thought of going to see him. The whole thing has evolved to the point that he will leave around the third week of August, travel around in southeast Asia, and I will meet him about a month later (the timing could be a little sketchy since I need to finish my master's thesis first. Yes, I probably should be working on that instead of writing this, but that gives more time for the thesis fairies to do the work for me) somewhere near the end of his Asia trek for a three month to head out to Fiji - New Zealand - Australia - Egypt - Brazil - Argentina - Peru and home.

The endless summer part was an add-on because I am a huge fan of the super cheezy wonderfully upbeat music of Scooter..."endless summer" is a song by Scooter that I love. Also, I will be travelling when most countries south of the equator will be in their spring-summer phase so this trip will be like an endless summer, which sadly will be followed by depression forever winter when we come back near the end of December. I am hoping that future round the world travellers might also find it helpful to figure out how we went about with the tickets, visas, vaccinations, and also some suggested itineraries. I will attempt to post pictures every once in a while along the way as well. As a start, we are likely going with travel cuts for their round the world tickets. More info on this as I figure out the specifics. Will this be a cheap trip? Heck no. Will it be ordinary? Absolutely not. This will likely be the trip of a lifetime and one that I will forever be grateful to have had the opportunity to take. I always wanted to take a massive trip, and the timing of taking one between finishing grad studies and starting work couldn't be better.