The Plans and their Genesis
The point of this blog is to keep friends and family up-to-date with my travels on my around-the-world trip.
Here are the tenative plans:
June 6 -- Depart San Francisco, CA
June 7 - June 10 -- Czech Republic (Prauge)
June 10 - June 13 -- England (London)
June 13 - 20 -- Slovenia (Ljubljana) to Croatia (Zagreb) to Hungary (Budapest)
June 21 - 30 -- Berlin?, Latvia (Riga)?, Sweden (Stockholm)?, Russia (St. Petersberg, Moscow)?
July 1 - July 14 -- Turkey
July 14 - August 4 -- India (into Mumbai and out of Delhi)
August 4 - August 12 -- SE Asia (into Kuala Lumpur, out of Singapore)
August 12 - August 19 - Australia (Sydney to Melbourne)
August 19 - August 27 - New Zealand (South Island)
August 27 - Sept 7 -- Hong Kong & China
September 7 -- Arrive San Francisco, CA
For those of you who don't know the backstory:
Realizing this was the one time in my life when I could take a trip like this, I quit my job at the Federal Reserve in DC shortly after being admitted for the Fall of 2005 and deciding to attend the PhD Progam in Global Economics & Management at UCLA's Anderson School with a generous financial package. After all, I'm at a relatively commitment free point in my life and have something great lined-up for when I return; when I'm 80, there certainly won't be regrets.
In late April, I drove across the country--for a fifth time, which is an experience by itself, given how much there is to see in our own country--squeezing everything I own into my car since I could store it at my brother's house in San Francisco. That's where and when the planning began in earnest.
I wanted to choose destinations that meet certain criteria: 1) they would be cheap, 2) I had not been before, 3) I knew people if possible (esp. if they weren't cheap,) and 4) where I would be unlikely to go again soon because they'd be too far away. In addition to the places I'm going I considered Southern Africa and South America, but unfortunately given time and cost constraints I wasn't able to work those in. Besides which its winter in both places anyway (and being in California for the next 4+ years, South America shouldn't be too hard to reach.)
In the past I've lived in Japan and travelled to Morroco, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Ireland, England, France, Italy, Hong Kong, China, Thailand, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada. That means that at a minimum this trip should bring me up from 16 to a total of 28 countries, which is still only 14% of the world's 193 countries, meaning I'll have plenty of opportunites ahead of me to travel to new places once I return to the US.
Here are the tenative plans:
June 6 -- Depart San Francisco, CA
June 7 - June 10 -- Czech Republic (Prauge)
June 10 - June 13 -- England (London)
June 13 - 20 -- Slovenia (Ljubljana) to Croatia (Zagreb) to Hungary (Budapest)
June 21 - 30 -- Berlin?, Latvia (Riga)?, Sweden (Stockholm)?, Russia (St. Petersberg, Moscow)?
July 1 - July 14 -- Turkey
July 14 - August 4 -- India (into Mumbai and out of Delhi)
August 4 - August 12 -- SE Asia (into Kuala Lumpur, out of Singapore)
August 12 - August 19 - Australia (Sydney to Melbourne)
August 19 - August 27 - New Zealand (South Island)
August 27 - Sept 7 -- Hong Kong & China
September 7 -- Arrive San Francisco, CA
For those of you who don't know the backstory:
Realizing this was the one time in my life when I could take a trip like this, I quit my job at the Federal Reserve in DC shortly after being admitted for the Fall of 2005 and deciding to attend the PhD Progam in Global Economics & Management at UCLA's Anderson School with a generous financial package. After all, I'm at a relatively commitment free point in my life and have something great lined-up for when I return; when I'm 80, there certainly won't be regrets.
In late April, I drove across the country--for a fifth time, which is an experience by itself, given how much there is to see in our own country--squeezing everything I own into my car since I could store it at my brother's house in San Francisco. That's where and when the planning began in earnest.
I wanted to choose destinations that meet certain criteria: 1) they would be cheap, 2) I had not been before, 3) I knew people if possible (esp. if they weren't cheap,) and 4) where I would be unlikely to go again soon because they'd be too far away. In addition to the places I'm going I considered Southern Africa and South America, but unfortunately given time and cost constraints I wasn't able to work those in. Besides which its winter in both places anyway (and being in California for the next 4+ years, South America shouldn't be too hard to reach.)
In the past I've lived in Japan and travelled to Morroco, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Ireland, England, France, Italy, Hong Kong, China, Thailand, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada. That means that at a minimum this trip should bring me up from 16 to a total of 28 countries, which is still only 14% of the world's 193 countries, meaning I'll have plenty of opportunites ahead of me to travel to new places once I return to the US.
posted by Traveling Brian at 9:29 PM
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Have a great trip! Incidentally, your old office is really nice, which is a shame because the work is just as unexciting as it was when you left.
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