So we're way out from D-day (dooms day, departure day, day day), but a trip of this magnitude requires a lot of planning. Erin is heavy on researching flights, things to do and places to see on the first leg of our trip - [carribean country that shall not be named], Oaxaca, Bahia, and Patagonia. I have been tasked with Macchu Picchu, Rio and Sao Paulo, and Buenos Aires, most of which i haven't started yet.
Apart from the planning the actual trip are the broader goals we want or need to accomplish. Some of the issues we've already discussed are:
-SB
Apart from the planning the actual trip are the broader goals we want or need to accomplish. Some of the issues we've already discussed are:
- Telling our families about taking a year off of our lives to travel around the world
- Telling my Brazilian family that not only am I coming to visit them on my RTW trip, but I'm coming with my girlfriend. Right, I'm gay.
- General travel themes for this website
- Finding freelance work on the road to supplement our 'income'
- Refereeing rugby on the road
- Dealing with the professional opportunities that present themselves in our impending absence
-SB
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