Round the World Air Tickets Made Easy

by Neil Woodburn on

Everyone, at least one time in their life, should fly around the world.

This may sound like a very expensive option, but it can be surprisingly affordable when you consider the distance that will be covered.

One of the cooler round-the-world websites I’ve seen recently, AirTreks.com, allows circumnavigators the ability to plan their trip by simply clicking on various cities on a world map. It’s very easy. In just a few moments, I was able to put together my own dream trip: Los Angeles – Reykjavik – Moscow – Bangkok – Hawaii – Los Angeles. The site quickly determined the necessary stopovers I needed to make and then estimated tickets prices as $2533 to $3343. Another click would have sent my request off to an agent who would then fine tune the itinerary and get back to me.

Not too bad!

Round-the-World on Horseback

by Justin Glow on

A lot of people take round-the-world trips: sometimes solo, sometimes by bike, sometimes on a motorcycle, sometimes by foot. Here’s one I haven’t heard yet: Round-the-world by horse.

“Rodeo Star and Western Reenactor” Ezra Cooley, 27, from Chico, California, and his two horses, Red and pack horse Jahob, are currently making their way across the United States (he’s currently near Fort Madison, Iowa Wappingers Falls, NY, it seems), from California to New York. From there, he will board a ship headed for Spain, where he will reunite with Red and Jahob, and ride through Africa, on to Australia, South America, and Mexico before coming home to California.

“This is a pretty big thing I am trying to attempt,” he writes in his journal on the day before leaving. Big indeed.