Around The World In 30 Days

Our Travel Plans 2023 & 2024

My wife and I are well into our seventies so we’re sort of in a race to get more of our bucket list checked off. As you get older the urgency seems to grow and delays seem devastating. We’re back to major trips after covid and so far this year we’ve been catching up with going into the Caribbean twice, back to Alaska, visiting the Galapagos and Machu Picchu. Coming up is the British Isles and a cruise to Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia and a November trip to Egypt.

I just recently was threatened with another setback. A month ago I had another eye surgery to slow the serious effects of glaucoma and things didn’t go as well as hoped. After three weeks the doctor suggested I no go traveling out of the country and it looked like the next trip to England and the cruise would get scrubbed. Yesterday my exam showed great improvement so we’re back to packing for that trip.

We’ve been planning and working for some time on a February 2024 trip and it just occurred to me that this itinerary will completely circle the globe in around 30 days. Accurately it is around the world in 34 days…

This itinerary is a replacement for several trips lost because of covid. Actually covid cost cancelation of 13 trips with a few being replacement trips that were also canceled.

We leave in mid February from Orlando flying to Zurich, Switzerland. We then fly to Mumbai, India and after several days we board the Celebrity Millennium. The cruise will make port visits to Goa, two stops in Sri Lanka, ports of call in Phuket, Thailand, Penang and Port Klang, Malaysia and finishes in Singapore.

From Singapore we remain on board for a back-to-back and sail for Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), and Na Trang, Vietnam, on to Hong Kong and Taiwan. That cruise ends in Yokohama, Japan after a port call in Kagoshima.

That round the world trip ends with us flying home to Orlando after spending some time in Tokyo.