westcoastfunky

Who has been around the world? How many countries have you been to?

Is there anyone that has been to EVERY country?

lauren313

Hey there, I moved this thread into the "Round the world + long term travel" forum!!

I had a "round the world" ticket, but only in the sense that it flew me right round the world, I only had 8 or 9 stops on the ticket, so I don't really consider it a true round the world trip.

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westcoastfunky

oh sorry, I was trying to find a similiar section but there are so many layers to Travel Punk I am still learning them!

The Monsignor

There is a metric ass-ton of information here, too - Be sure to use the search function, the odds are you'll find that someone else has asked a similar question before!

Welcome to Travelpunk! You'll find it's a great group of people here, and we're always willing to help...

(just wait till you get enough of us together in one place!!)

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worldwidemike

Welcome to the Boards, westcoast!

I've been to more than sixty countries, but many of my trips have been short ones. I've never had a chance to do a true, round the world trip. The longest I've been gone is 6 months after high school when I backpacked through Europe, ending up on a kibbutz in Israel. Of course, that was more than two decades ago (I'm one of Tpunk's oldsters -- just ask Joey!).

So, I highly recommend you doing your round the world trip now, while you're young. Once you get hooked into a job, a house, or whatever, it gets harder and harder to break free of the things that would keep you attached to one area.

Hopefully, within a couple years when I retire from the airline and begin work as a middle school teacher, I'll have a couple months each summer to indulge myself on long trips...

Good luck, and feel free to ask any questions here!

worldwidemike

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westcoastfunky

I certainly don't feel young! lol I'm 27 but I do feel that I better do it now because I'm coming close to that age where it will become a bit harder.

I definately want to do an around the world, every country is most likely unrealistic, and I'm more about seeing the world than I am about putting myself into dangerous situations so I'd avoid the really unsafe ones, but I'd like to hit like 75% of each continent, I think that would be really amazing...this will probably be the only time I really do something like this, after this hopefully I will have a career which means a few weeks holiday a year only so I really want to make it count!