Travel the World… By Foot

The basis: Leave everything and start walking/hiking/busing.

Necessary equipment:

• enough money to survive for as long as you want
• digital camera with solar charger and extra memory card
• journal

Details: Wake up one morning and don’t show up for work. Preferably, don’t call in at all. This works best if you’re salaried as you’ll likely receive two or three additional payments before your work realizes you won’t be returning.

Grab a backpack filled with only the necessary items including your digital camera and journal.

If in the US, start walking south. In this scenario, it’s entirely fine to hitchhike or to take a bus, so long as you stop frequently to enjoy your surroundings. Your goal is the tip of Chile, through every country possible. If you run out of money, you should be prepared to find an agricultural job or other form of labor. After arriving as far south as you can go, hitch a ride on a ship, working your way west toward Australia and New Zealand. Explore them both and whatever Pacific islands are easy to access, then move on to Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Your success is in your stories and pictures. If possible, mail your memory cards and journals back to a post office box or to someone you trust back home. If you’re mailing to a person you know, be sure they’re unlikely to move. Your goal is not to communicate with “home”, merely to have a location to send things from your travels.

Plausibility: 7/10