...has bitten me. Hard.
(Yes, that is my real passport. Yes, the white spots are mold. I spent monsoon season in Thailand in 2006, give me a break!)I mean, I've been planning to do an RTW for a long time. Ever since I did my backpacking trip through Europe almost 4 years ago. But at this point, I'd been thinking it would happen years in the future; I have to finish my time in Korea first, and then there would be 2 years in Peace Corps. I was thinking that maybe, instead of going all around the world in a year or two, I could circumnavigate the globe in more like 7 or 8 years, taking teaching jobs for a year in different countries on different continents.
This still isn't a bad idea, but... once
Kat and I started talking about it, I really want to do the full, backpack-on-my-back, sleeping in hostels or couchsurfing (or in train stations), each-week-in-a-different-city
Round the World Trip.
If my dreams come true and Peace Corps medically clears me next month, then it will be almost three years before I can seriously consider this trip.
I don't want it just to be something I yearn for my whole life... I want it to
happen.
I'm putting it down in my Life Plan. In ink, not pencil.
Winter 2009-Winter 2010: Teaching in Korea
Winter/Spring 2010-Spring 2012: Peace Corps
Spring 2012: Begin RTW!
Sound good, Kat?
