The start: a rush departure!

WOW. So I made it!!! I am in this 2pm train leading me to Frankfurt, where I start flying around the world :-). I really thought I would never get there:
- only had 4-5 weeks to prepare this trip
- this morning status wasn't promising for a successful start... my bag wasn’t prepared at all, my flat up and down with stuff all over, my 2012 taxes  unfinished...
Finishing the taxes at 10am, flat finally cleaned at 12:30pm, I have about 1h max to gather my clothes and stuff in my bag... Well, it worked, as I am now in the train, crazy! Almost "as usual" for me, but I definitely stretched it this time!

How did I end up in this journey? 2 months ago, I would have never ever thought I would do this "round-the-world" tour.

Early January, I was still enjoying New-York City after New-Year, thinking it would be the best city for me to move to. Then things and events accelerated. Back to Geneva, it was clear I could not keep long doing what I was doing. My job and the team I was working with was good, but I was looking for more and most of all, in a different place.
A job proposal in Dubai made me believed I could be able to find another job whatever I would be doing... So I took a risk: I quit my job, did not accept the Dubai's offer, and decided to start planning my dream trip: a round-the-world :-))

End-February, once out of P&G, I start looking at what it takes to tour the world from East to West. And I quickly realized that organizing this kind of trip isn’t that easy. People are usually preparing it months to 1-2 years ahead, studying destinations and options.

Ok, I cannot afford to take that time, so what should I do? Take a prepared world-tour package as some operators specialized themselves in? Focus just on 1 region and not disperse myself?

No way for that 2nd option, doing a tour around the planet always sounded amazing to me. Not sure if I read too much Jules Vernes "80 days around the world", or looked too much at airlines world-map routes while flying in the last 7 years... So I choose the 3rd option of course: I'll organize just the minimum in the next 3-4 weeks, then I will sort things out on the way!

After many calls with Star Alliance / Lufthansa, I can sort out a world-tour ticket. Then I sort out the medical/ vaccines points, get a new passport with many white pages, and that's it, it should be enough to make this dream happen! 

This is where I am now. In few hours I will be in this Frankfurt to Johannesburg flight, reaching South Africa early Friday morning to meet a friend living there. The 2 first nights are sorted out, then we'll see... let the adventure begins!

The plastic boy I was offered by Geneva friends... he needs to come everywhere with me ;)
Also few books in the background to prepare a bit!

That's it, I left... bye-bye Geneva, hello the world :-)