Worldschooling

Have you ever wondered how much preparation goes into a trip? Well if you’ve ever been on one then you have. It takes a lot of planning to go on a trip that’s even a week or two long. Imagine what it would be like to have to plan a trip that’s more than several months long.

We decided to go on this trip around the world in April but the preparation went way farther back. So today instead of talking about traveling, I’m going to be talking about the preparation that went into being able to travel.

One of the first things we did to prepare for the trip after we knew we were actually going to do it, was getting the bags we would use during the whole trip. We knew that whatever bags we got, we would need to put everything we were bringing for a number of months inside of it. So we went to REI and spent a long time trying on different brands of backpacks and suitcase-backpacks. (Ones that you can either carry on your back, or roll like a suitcase) The bags that we ended up keeping for the trip were suitcase-backpacks and we also got daypacks to put things in that we would need during the day when we were touring.

A very important part about preparing for the trip but definitely my least favorite part was hooking up with a travel doctor and getting medication for the trip. I definitely do not want to get sick on this trip but I know there are very high chances that it will happen.

After a while of chatting about all the possible diseases we could get in the places we were going and all the medication we would need, we had to get shots. We had to get three rabies shots, then two Japanese Encephalitis shots, and finally a yellow fever shot. They weren’t all at once of course which was good. In addition to the shots, we also had to take four typhoid fever pills over the course of eight days.

The next thing we had to deal with was renting and packing up our house. The renting our house out part was probably the easiest part. Our house was rented within a week. As for packing up everything in our house, that took more time. I started with packing up everything in my room that I wouldn’t need in the next month or two.The process went very slowly. I still had a good number of things still left in my room a week before we left. My dad was busy loading boxes into his car and driving stuff to our storage unit or the dump. We also stored some things such as boxes of clothing in our garage too. The last couple of days, we managed to get everything out of our house and we also swept and cleaned a little before the professional cleaning people arrived.

Finally, the hardest part of the preparation was packing. We could only bring about a weeks worth of clothes and a couple of things to do for fun in our free time. We also had to keep in mind that we had to sleep in whatever clothes we brought so they had to be comfortable. Since we’re going to be in fall weather as well as summer weather we each brought a couple of long and short sleeved shirts as well as shorts and pants. We also brought a sweater, a winter jacket, and a raincoat. My brother Jack and I also had to think about what we wanted to bring that we could use in our free time such as our sketch pads and a journal. For the airport I also brought a ball, and I brought putty for the plane. Iend, packing up my room and packing for the trip wasn’t actually as hard as I thought it would be, but it did take a while to complete.

As you can see, there were a lot of things we had to do to prepare for our trip including getting packs to put our stuff in, getting medication, shots, and travel advice from our travel doctor, renting and packing up our house, and packing for the trip. Of course, there were many other things we had to do too like booking plane tickets and deciding where to go next, but these were the things we had to think about the most. So if you’re thinking about going on a trip similar to this, I would say these are the main things you need to focus on.

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