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• Round-the-world trip: the itinerary in Canada on 2010.01.09

  

  “The same way that slowing down improves your peripheral vision when driving, reducing your speed allows you to take more in while you travel.”

  This analogy, lifted from Rough Guide’s First-Time Around the World, distills perfectly our approach to travel.

  It’s highly tempting, in a trip of this scope, to visit as many places possible. It’s like going to an all-you-can-eat buffet and loading on shrimps, lasagna, orange beef, chicken tikka, and Caesar salad on a single plate.

• How to save money for a round-the-world trip in Canada on 2009.12.29

  

  “You’re so lucky,” people often tell me when they learn I’m taking a year off work to travel with Bianca. “I wish I could do that.”

  The sentiment is understandable, but luck had nothing to do with it. I’m certainly fortunate to be in the position where I can do this. But it wasn’t luck.

• Why I decided to drop everything to travel the world in Canada on 2010.01.04

  

  When he published his Round-the-World Travel Guide, Marc Brosius had the good sense to print, right on the first page, the following caveat:

  “WARNING: This site has been known to change people’s lives!”

  And wouldn’t you know it, it did.