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So you’ve decided to travel around the world, and through some cursory research you’ve discovered that the airline alliances’ have special round-the-world fares. Which may be the reason why you ended up at AirTreks—because you knew there were
alternatives to this market-rate published ticket. While there may be reasons for using the airline alliances to purchase your ticket, there are downsides that must be revealed.
No one said planning a big trip was easy. It can be a nerve-racking endeavor, especially if you happen to be a
terminal procrastinator. A good way to manage the planning process is to set a timeline, thereby organizing your errands into time periods and setting up your launch in an practical and efficient manner. This post will give you that timeline, one that will hopefully engage you in the planning process and allow you to better organize your life all the way up until the day of your departure.
1 year – 6 months out:
- It’s still a bit too early to be purchasing tickets so use this time to decide upon your destinations, outline your itinerary and set a budget – in other words, dream.
One thing that is common to all travelers, no matter from what income level, traveling style or country they come, is a need to pack their stuff.
In honor of Christmas here’s a gift for those that hate to pack. The Universal Packing List is a tool that will assemble a checklist based on the details of your particular trip.
Connect the dots on Trip Planner
While the idea of taking an around the world trip may seem complicated, the actual booking process isn’t nearly as daunting. It really is as simple as one-two-three.
Here are the are 3 simple steps in a standard AirTreks booking sequence. By the end, you should have an amazing trip you can be proud of.
Money is pretty much everything when it comes to starting your planning process. I can say from experience, it’s key. So the anxiety you feel before dropping a crazy sum to kick-start your trip should come as no surprise.
A deep breath can help with that. Remember, it’s an investment in your life. Enjoy it!
In terms of the practical, there are two ways to pay for plane tickets: with a credit card (paying later) and with cash (paying now). I’ll talk about the implications of each method below:
Over the past few weeks I’ve been hell-bent on compiling lists of webpages and sites to help my readers sort out the dearth of travel info on the “Internets”. I do it because I’m aware of the heart palpitations that random online travel searches can cause. The goal was to reduce their 
frequency and to help you see the trees for the forest. Anyone who’s been planning their around the world adventure probably knows exactly what I’m talking about.
In my ongoing pursuit to find travel-related goodies on this here Internets, I came across a very interesting new site. Public Earth has dropped onto the scene recently, available to outside viewers (in beta) only less than a month ago. Though they’ve recently opened for visitors, they’ve been quietly assembling content so that they could have an extensive destination list ready for their unveiling.
Planning a big around the world trip is never easy. When you’re putting together something that digs so deep into your savings and includes places you’ve wanted to visit since time immemorial, the whole process can seem a bit overwhelming. You might as well be battling the Mongol hordes.
So where do you start?
Choosing your traveling companion (if there isn’t an obvious choice like a spouse, cousin or go-to drinking buddy) is often a daunting task to say the least. It can be a source of anxiety if not outright fear to think of how this person can effect the trip’s final outcome, change its events and especially the way we look back on it when it’s over. Who comes with you can quite literally make or break everything. So how in the world do you do it?
Well never fear, we have some suggestions. Of course we do!
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The new hot topic is to go a-flashpacking (aka, traveling with technology). Given pop culture’s many new tech-heavy habits the trend isn’t surprising. It does however let you travel with all those internet-age sensibilities you’ve managed to adopt over the past half-decade.
With international wi-fi popping up everywhere, the idea resonates firmly with the traveling community. Blogging from the road, processing your photos from your hotel/hostel bed, sharing music with fellow travelers at a café table, are all now par for the course inside or outside the technorati multitude.
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