Hi!

It took me a week but finally I read it all, was really amazing to hear all you guys, gives me more motivation to do my RTW with my girlfriend (we are about 2 or 3 months from departure.

I wish I had found this thread in the beginning of 2010, when I joined this comunity, that should have helped us to save more and prepare better.

I hope in a year or more I will come back to this thread to tell you how we did it, but now I just can tell how are we planning to do it:

We have been saving for 4 years, and gathering the equipment (funny/sad I had to sell the bike three weeks ago, we will buy a cheaper one soon).

as we are both engineers, in a country as Chile is easy to save, we have a cheap house, we didn't have a car (until we came to Australia, were is a must). Now that mining is doing bad I was retrenched (more money for the trip), so now were are going to take a year off to travel in a bike (we hope the money is enough for a year travelling).

to make the trip for cheap we will avoid hotel, we will camp as much as possible, and restaurants are forbidden (maybe once in each country to taste it).

And I'm planning to try to get a job in any non English nor Spanish speaking country, especially in Russia and China (as china is very expensive to ride probably we will go on foot there).

I don't thing our professions will allow us to get a temporary job while traveling (chemical engineer and computer engineer), but we are willing to teach Spanish, work in hotels or bars


from all the post I would like to recall:

THAT'S THE BEST QUESTION EVER MADE!!

Awesome!!!, I would love to do that, but I cant left mi girlfriend alone such a long time. I work in minning too - well... I used to work in mining - maybe when comming back from the trip I will give a look to the FIFO scheme.


I'm glad to hear that, I was quite stressed because I only have 3 months to plan.

Francisco.
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