Rough Itinerary - Click to go to itinerary
Cue the fanfare, today we present the Rough Itinerary for our RTW trip beginning on July 6th, 2011. If you take the time to review our Rough Itinerary, you’ll notice that we’ve left it quite vague. So vague that we forgot to include any of the things we plan to do.
You’re telling me that you are supposed to put activities into your itinerary? Are you sure?
To make amends, here’s a small list of some of what we are planning to do along the way.
Visit the runes in Chitzen Itza on route to Belize
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We’ll probably stay in Belize for a week or so.
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Next up, learning Spanish in Guatemala. From what we gather, we’ll spend about 5 weeks in classes while living with a local family.
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Eventually, we’ll make our way to Ecuador where we hope to volunteer at Sacred Sueños for 1-3 months.
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Our next scheduled activity isn’t until the summer of 2012 when we plan to walk the 1900km Via Francigena.
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We have to wait quite a while after the 80 day walk before we are allowed back into the Schengen Area due to visa requirements. This forces us to wait until July 2013 before coming back to Spain for La Tomatina in July 2013. La Tomatina is a non-negotiable item on Ashley’s wish list.
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By flydime (La Tomatina (25.08.2010) / Spain, Buñol) CC-BY-SA-2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
From there, we’ve got another winter to while away before we go horseback riding yurt to yurt though Mongolia in the summer of 2014.
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Everything else we’ll make up as we go along.
What do you think – too defined? Too ambitious? Not ambitious enough?
I like your ‘anchors’ that you use to plan ur itinerary around. I think with 3 years on the road, you’ll have plenty of time to be flexible and take things slowly.
So cool that you guys found time to comment before your flight. Have a good trip, looking forward to reading all about SA.
I seriously can’t believe you are trying to make our 800km trek across Spain look like a walk around the block! Now you’re just showing off….
I have no sniff how I will sell Shawna on traveling for three years, but you know my feelings on the yurt-to-yurt…I will be there if I can be!!
I should probably book Mongolia tomorrow just to make sure I can have the bigger horse. Oneupmanship takes dedication. Mongolia 2014!
Wow…sounds like you guys have some great events planned! cheers!
Thanks Gillian
Well it’s probably a good thing Mom doesn’t regularly read your blog… 2014 hey… she’s still hoping you’ll be back in 1 year… or less if possible.
I hope you guys have an amazing trip, but we’re sure as hell going to miss you guys while you’re gone. It’ll take quite a few scotch nights to catch up on 3 years worth of adventures!
Well you never know. The old Travel Funds are likely going to play a big roll in how long we can be on the road.
But now that I can correlate the number of days on the road to the amount of scotch I’ll get to drink when I get back, 2014 may not be long enough.
Wow! Sounds amazing. Can’t wait to read more about your trip. I also really like the idea of having anchors for your trip – I did that too, to a certain extent and it really helps to have something to work towards, but also have huge chunks of time that were completely unscheduled.
Mongolia is unforgettable. My only piece of advice would be to bring it forward!! 😀
I’ll have to pester you for info about Mongolia. It’s probably the thing on my bucket list that I’m looking forward to the most.
I’d like to bump it up, we’ll just have to let things play out and see when we can get there.
I’d be more than happy to talk your ear off about Mongolia 🙂 🙂