Lots of people make comments along the lines of “I’ll come with you!” when you talk about world trips, with varying degrees of sincerity of course, but either way there isn’t anything stopping people hooking up with me for parts of the journey. I’m not planning on having a full time travel partner since I want to be free to randomly go where ever I want without compromising.

On the other hand, the more people come out to join me for shorter periods of time – say a couple of weeks to a month – the better. It’s easy enough to plan to be at a particular airport to pick them up, and drop them back either there, or another location down the road.
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