Hi!
Welcome to our Round The World 2024 Travel Blog. We'll depart from Miami on January 6th and cover over 38,000 nautical miles, 70 ports, and almost 40 countries. I'll try to post photos and notes from every stop. Stay tuned!!
Preparation And Logistics
There's actually a lot of work and preparation required before we leave. Aside from the packing (multiple climates and dress codes), the two major items are passports/visas and prescription drugs. First-world problems but definitely time-consuming. In order to take the trip, we need ten blank pages in our passports to account for all the entry and exit stamps. We also have to get visas for India (longest form ever), New Zealand (fairly easy), Australia (through a really cool phone app), and, in a few weeks, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and finally, Nepal. We've also created multiple paper and electronic copies of everything - just in case! The second major issue was getting a 5 month supply of prescription drugs. Nothing about the American healthcare system is easy. For those of you outside the country, prescription drugs come in 30 or 90-day supply with no exceptions. Except .. we needed more than 90 days. Engineer-brain John did some research and created a flowchart of how to ge
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